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From: msirota@ee.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Priorities in 7.2.0
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.173018.3282@ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 90 17:30:18 GMT
References: <1990Nov27.215502.25496@ee.rochester.edu> <3672@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Mark Sirota <msirota@mars.ee.rochester.edu>
Organization: University of Rochester Department of Electrical Engineering
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In article <3672@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes:
>> However, there are two problems with this.  First, messages without a
>> priority wind up last, rather than first, as they probably should.  So I
>
> This is basically where I disagree.. I think higher priority messages
> should be listed first.  Given that you want it the other way around,
> I see your problem and your idea about reversing the priorities and the
> sort seems to be the only way around it (and is also a reasonable idea).

Ahh, I think here we have the core of the problem.  In thinking about it, I
agree, higher priority messages should be listed first.  But the
inconsistency here is that with the default sorting order, new messages are
first - but then if one comes in while you're working, it gets stuck last.

Now, this is how it has always worked since the dawn of time; the mailbox is
a flat file and new things are appended to the end of it, and that's why my
first thought was that the sorting order was backwards.  I think your way
makes more sense, actually, and I'd like to do it that way - except that new
messages, which I receive frequently, should be added in at the bottom of
the new message section (which should be sorted by priority, and
within that, chronologically by date).

In other words, I guess what I'm asking for is a way to filter a message
through a command when it first comes in, or a command to run whenever a new
message comes in (which in this case would be my script to set priority and
resort).  I think that would solve all my problems.

> Of course, the option to do subsorting is really where this comes in most
> handy.  That is, sort by author and then by status so I can group all the
> messages from someone together and group those that I haven't replied to
> separately.

Subsorting is indeed a truly wonderful thing.  I wonder how I ever lived
without it.

Mark
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