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

[Joe Zeff]

On 01/28/2013 05:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Sorting the data in the wrong order really quickly is not necessarily an
> improvement, and asking for a stable sort is not a luxury.

Actually, for almost all of her needs the sort worked.  There were only 
a few cases where there were several customers that were only separated 
by different customer numbers, and having them end up not in numeric 
order wasn't that much of a problem, because they were all together 
anyway.  (That is, you might end up with John Doe 245, John Doe 56, John 
Doe 169, but there'd be nobody else between them.)  The boss didn't care 
because he didn't see that as a problem and, to be honest, neither did 
I.  As long as all customers named John Doe were together, he and I felt 
that having them out of numeric order didn't matter.  And, considering 
that the system we were working on didn't allow multi-tasking, getting 
her prompt back in 3 minutes instead of 60 was a great improvement.