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

[Joe Zeff]

On 01/27/2013 01:00 PM, David WE Roberts wrote:
> I still don't understand why the latest threads want to snuggle up next to
> the negative scores instead of the positive scores.

Sorting on several fields can be quite tricky.  I remember, once, many 
many years ago, changing a very slow bubble sort of a list of customers 
to a shell sort that took 5% of the time.  The data entry person 
complained because the sort wasn't "stable."  That is, if there were 
multiple customers with the same last name (what I was asked to sort on) 
the new list didn't keep the customer numbers in correct order, 
something I'd not been asked to do.[1]  Alas, the boss decided that the 
extra work needed to do the second stage of the sort wasn't worth the 
time and effort.  Here, there may be a subtle bug in that stage, or the 
devs haven't completely implemented it as yet.

[1]She'd asked for this because with the old routine she could have 
printed out the list on index cards and hand sorted them faster.  I 
never said it, but I couldn't help thinking that some people are never 
satisfied, even if they get exactly what they asked for.