Hello Fabio! On Saturday, July 30, 2005, 3:52 AM, you wrote:
> So, the issue is that even if I sort in ascending order, where newest > messages should be on top, when messages are received from pop3 server in > the same minute they get sorted in descending (wrong) order. I can confirm your experience. I was slow to catch on to what was happening to me, because, in TBOT, Yahoogroups so frequently sends messages on to us out of the order of their creation and randomly delayed, such that often we read replies before originals. I had been trying to attribute the out-of-order arrival from the TB! lists to some such phenomenon, but only in my own mind without discussing the issue with anyone. My preference is to read in ascending order, just like you, sorting by received time. Additionally, I thread by None, preferring to read every message and to read chronologically (flagging those of particular interest as I go)--since I do have the time to read the mailing lists this way. The bug is particularly annoying to me, however, in a rapid e-mail exchange PM, where the conversation is functioning almost as if by telephone. Finally, last night I caught on that the messages were arriving chronologically but being sorted in descending order, contrary to my preference. > You can see the screenshot that shows messages received in the same minute > got sorted the wrong way (oldest to newest). I don't know why, but the > first message of the group that was fetched at 09:54 got sorted in the > right order (it's the highlighted one), while all the rest got sorted in > the wrong order. Yes. Good example. > I am sure that older versions (maybe 2.x?) did not show this behaviour. I am sure, too, because I do a considerable amount of back-and-forth PM e-mail conversation with relatives and friends. But I'm not absolutely certain of the point at which the betas broke it. Certainly somewhere in the later 3.51.xx series, I think. If it had been broken in early 3.xx versions, I would most certainly have become aware that I was being annoyed. If you will write a BT issue report, I will confirm the problem as you describe it. I realize there are work-arounds, by giving up my preference and establishing other habits. Still, it is a bug. -- Best regards, Mary The Bat 3.51.10 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
