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

[Artur Jachacy]

Charles Kerr wrote:
> 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.
>
> But stating it in those clear terms, though, I realized:
> I can't think of any /need/ to sort by the oldest post.
> Maybe the cleanest fix is that, when sorting by date in the header pane,
> threads are *always* sorted by the date of the thread's newest post.
> IIRC this is how Thunderbird behaves, too.

Not for me.

> Can anyone think of a reason for Pan to /not/ behave that way?

Because that's not how it's been done. That should be reason enough.
How about the order of threads being messed up by a "me too" post sent a 
week after the thread has died?

Artur

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