I use pine, so the messages are archived in the order in which I pop them into the folder. This can be handy when I've sat on a message for a while before replying; the message and my reply will still be adjacent in the archive, because I don't archive mail until I've responded to it (if it required a response) and I archive my sent mail pretty much immediately.
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Date: 2003-08-30 07:56 pm (UTC)