Re: [Pan-users] Re: Feedback, Please: sorting threads by date of newest article

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi *,

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 07:28:05PM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Charles Kerr <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Mon, 10 Jul 2006
> 11:52:14 -0500:
> 
> > In http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2006-07/msg00040.html I
> > asked for suggestions on user-friendly ways to sort threads by the date of
> > the thread's newest post, rather than (as Pan does now) by the date of the
> > thread's oldest post.
> > [...]
> > Can anyone think of a reason for Pan to /not/ behave that way?
> 
> Yes.  If I sort thread by date, with both read and unread overviews
> visible, that's what I want -- all visible sibling posts sorted
> by date. If I I want to sort only the unread subthreads by date, I view
> only unread subthreads, and /then/ sort by date.

I second Ducan's view.
With sorted by the threads oldest post I can easily look through the
header view and look for the thread that "started after that other
thread"

> I'd find anything else rather seriously frustrating and
> unintuitive/illogical. Therefore, if you plan to implement such a thing, at
> /least/ make it an option, either with a second column, or with a checkbox
> in preferences.

+1

> [...] 
> If you get the idea I do /not/ like the idea, you'd be right! =8^\ 
> However, I supposed I could stomach it if it's an option.

This is basically my point of view as well..
Maybe it is becasue I'm used to the current sorting for years - and not
only in newsreaders, but also in my mailreader, in Webfrontends,...

Forums might behave differntly, but I don't use those....

ciao
Chritian