On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 10:01:47AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 23May2014 19:08, Guy Gold <g...@merl.com> wrote:

> Confidential? Really?
Only if you really want it to be...(send hooks, work in progress)



> >Thu, May 22, 2014 at 05:19:42PM EDT  To mutt-users@mutt.o 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 mutt-users@mutt.o │ └─>
> >Thu, May 22, 2014 at 09:37:48PM EDT  Cameron Simpson      │   └─>
> >Fri, May 23, 2014 at 08:19:11AM EDT  To mutt-users@mutt.o │     └─>
> >Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:22:54AM EDT  David Champion       │       └─>
> >Fri, May 23, 2014 at 03:15:05PM EDT  To mutt-users@mutt.o │         └─>
> >Fri, May 23, 2014 at 04:05:13PM EDT  David Champion       │           └─>
> >Fri, May 23, 2014 at 06:50:55PM EDT  To mutt-users@mutt.o │             └─>
> >Fri, May 23, 2014 at 04:14:20PM EDT  Derek Martin         └─>
> >
>
> 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?

Yes, I believe it does.  I copied the state of thread before this reply - that
I'm writing right now, and will see how this reply changes things. 



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GG

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