[Design] Something I really like about Eudora Pro 4

[Kevin Frank]

The main reason I haven't upgraded my copy of Eudora Pro beyond 4 (apart 
from the fact that most of the changes have been merely cosmetic) is they 
"fixed" something in Eudora Pro 5 that I preferred to have in it's "broken" 
state.

In Eudora 5, when you're looking at your messages in list view, the sort 
order is actively maintained, so that if you move a message from one box to 
another, it automatically moves to its proper place in the sort order. Some 
people may find this very useful, but here's how it works in Eudora 4:

When you click on a column heading, the messages are sorted by that 
criteria, but any messages that are moved into the box, appear at the 
bottom. Of course you can then resort to move them to the place where they 
belong.

Why do I prefer the Eudora 4 approach? 1) Because anything I move into a 
box automatically appears where I will see it. 2) If I have a message I've 
been meaning to reply to, but it's getting a bit stale and is scrolling up 
off the screen (as new messages appear below it), I can simply press Del 
followed by Ctrl-Z ("undo") and the message now will be sitting at the bottom.

The end result is that I can have a 99% sorted list, plus a few oddball 
items at the very bottom that aren't sorted. It may not sound like much, 
but it sure makes my life just a tiny bit easier.

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