When you say "open" a list, you mean the "View list" feature, right? It is *not* sorted by author. It is sorted by position on that list. Reading lists are positional, the order you click on columns in the GUI is irrelevant to the contents of a list. The fact that the arrow is displayed on the Author column is just a quirk of the gui (well the Qt grid the gui uses). The actual sort criteria currently in use at the time the gui displays the list is not a visible column, so the gui is left displaying an arrow against the last sort column that was in use before the list was displayed.
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