My 2 cents for Mark Sapiro's question:
OK. Since this may be more widely used, here's a question? The current summary groups all the messages from a single sender into one 'box'. If we sort the boxes[1] by time, should multiple messages from a single address be in separate, time sorted boxes or should they still be grouped in a single box, and if the latter should the boxes be time sorted by oldest or newest in the box.
The original post spoke of a list "where all messages are moderated, and conversations are long." A moderator who is trying to track the progress of a long conversation (while perhaps moderating for civility) would probably want to see all messages in strict time order, oldest first, without grouping by author. I would want it that way on my lists if they had enough traffic to make manual sorting tedious.
This could be especially important in cases where writers are sending off-list copies to each other, and thus sometimes replying to posts that haven't even reached the list in moderated form yet. You don't want to make a moderation decision about a reply before deciding what to do about the post being replied to.
(And of course "time order" must handle time zones accurately, e.g. a message sent from London at 1:00 am Wednesday should precede one sent from New York at 10:00 pm Tuesday. I mention this because I _think_ I remember running into a problem with this when archiving old messages from a pre-Mailman incarnation of a list.)
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