Subject: Sorting by "arrival" is not intuitive

From: [email-masked] (dawn hewitt)
Date: 21 Aug 1995 22:31:28 GMT

I work at the UCS Support Center at Indiana University.  A user wishes
to sort his messages by "arrival" date/time, and not "date" (i.e.,
date/time sent).  Pine's online help says that "arrival" sorts by the
date the message arrived in one's mailbox.  What that seems to mean is
that it sorts based on the time a message is moved into a specific folder.

Example: Set sort order to "arrival".  Move a rather old message into
a folder which contains newer messages.  The old message will appear
at the bottom of the list, as though it arrived recently.  In fact, it
*did* arrive recently into that folder.  Is it possible to sort based
on the date/time that a message arrived on one's account, regardless
of which folder the message is moved to?

Are there others out there frustrated (and misled) by this behavior?

Thanks.

--dawn