Re: [Pan-users] Making Pan behave like OE/Windows Mail

[David WE Roberts]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:51:12 +0000, David WE Roberts wrote:

> Now fixed email address (I hope).
> "David WE Roberts" <address@hidden>
> wrote in message news:...
>>I asked this question elsewhere and was directed here.
>>
>> I can see that I can watch threads, and also (with a bit of
>> investigation) write a rule so that I watch any thread I start.
>>
>> What I would then like to do is sort the header pane so that all the
>> watched threads are at the top and threaded, and then the rest of the
>> unwatched threads are displayed with the default behaviour i.e.
>> threaded and displayed in date order of start of thread. [This is what
>> I get with OE/Windows Mail and it seems to work pretty well - keep
>> track of interesting threads at the top but apart from that have
>> default behaviour.
>> Noted that Windows Live Mail has similar problems but I don't think Pan
>> should be taking WLM as a model of excellence :-) ]
>>
>> However in Pan if I sort on score I see the watched threads at the top
>> but then the other posts unthreaded below in date order of posting (I
>> think).
>>
>> Running Pan on various Windows PCs and under Ubuntu as well. One
>> version is Pan 0.133 on Windows Vista 32 bit.
>>
>> Any advice gratefully received.

One penny has just dropped.

If the score is negative (-100) or positive (9999) if you sort on score 
the scored article always aligns with the oldest posts and articles.

So if you have the 9999 at the top of the header pane you get the oldest 
threads next (which tend to look unthreaded because most posts have timed 
out).

So what I think I need is for sorting by score to have the positive scores 
first (date within score, newest first), then the null scores in recent 
date order, then the negative scores (again newest first).

I'm struggling with the logic of aligning both positive and negative 
scores with the oldest threads.

Cheers

Dave R