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

[jef_e]

Artur Jachacy wrote:
> Charles Kerr wrote:
>> 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.


Well that's reason enough for me! UUCP should be good enough for all of
you, with your newfangled NNTP and HTTP and stuff. And man, am I angry
that my ISP turned off telnet in favor of some upstart protocol called
SHH or something....  ;-)


> How about the order of threads being messed up by a "me too" post sent a
> week after the thread has died?

But yeah, I can see where this might be one of those things that might
be better as an option rather than an exclusive behavior. I'm not a fan
of this kind of threading - when I sort on date, I like things from the
same date to all be together - not jumbled around within various threads.

As an option like "sort thread by most recent post date", I can see
where some folks would find it useful -- after, I also hate threading
email messages, but I know some folks who do it.



jef