On 23May2014 19:08, Guy Gold <[email protected]> wrote:
===CONFIDENTIAL===
Confidential? Really?
[...]
When it happens, though, sometimes I do see irregular
behaviour. e.g : right in this current thread, when I opened the
mutt mailbox, your messages, from 4:14PM, was right above
Cameron's message from 7:22PM. At that point, I thought - that's
because your responding directly to my message. Then, I
refreshed my index for some other reason, and the index shifted
to what you see now:
Thu, May 22, 2014 at 05:19:42PM EDT To [email protected] Display of threads,
order in question
Thu, May 22, 2014 at 07:22:07PM EDT Cameron Simpson ├─>
Thu, May 22, 2014 at 08:54:23PM EDT To [email protected] │ └─>
Thu, May 22, 2014 at 09:37:48PM EDT Cameron Simpson │ └─>
Fri, May 23, 2014 at 08:19:11AM EDT To [email protected] │ └─>
Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:22:54AM EDT David Champion │ └─>
Fri, May 23, 2014 at 03:15:05PM EDT To [email protected] │ └─>
Fri, May 23, 2014 at 04:05:13PM EDT David Champion │ └─>
Fri, May 23, 2014 at 06:50:55PM EDT To [email protected] │ └─>
Fri, May 23, 2014 at 04:14:20PM EDT Derek Martin └─>
Just to clarify things up, which one of the two instances would
you consider at valid? Should your 4:14 message being right below
my OP, or where it is, as you see in the paste ?
Aha. I see your confusion.
Note that the subthreads are recursively sorted on their most recent member.
So:
Suppose your message of 06:50PM was not yet arrived to the mailbox.
That makes Derek's message of 4:14PM more recent than the most recent message
of the other subthread (David's, of 04:05PM). So Derek's _subthread_ (one
message long) is listed above _my_ subthread (running from 07:22PMmay22 to
David at 04:05PMmay23). So Derek's thread is listed first.
Then your reply to my subthread arrived, and it makes that subthread "newer"
than Derek's. So that subthread moves up above Derek.
Does this explain the behaviour?
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
Try not, do. Do not, try not. - Yoda
