[Pan-users] Feedback, Please: sorting threads by date of newest article

[Charles Kerr]

In http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2006-07/msg00040.html
I asked for suggestions on user-friendly ways to sort threads by the
date of the thread's newest post, rather than (as Pan does now) by the
date of the thread's oldest post.

But stating it in those clear terms, though, I realized:
I can't think of any /need/ to sort by the oldest post.
Maybe the cleanest fix is that, when sorting by date in the header pane,
threads are *always* sorted by the date of the thread's newest post.
IIRC this is how Thunderbird behaves, too.

Can anyone think of a reason for Pan to /not/ behave that way?

Charles