On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Linda Walsh
Most GUI's default to top posting leaving the quoted text as a log going backwards in
Most GUIs? You mean MS Outlook? Top posting can basically be traced to Microsoft's sloppy development of Outlook... not because of intelligent design or logic. TOFU is as you yourself stated... "backwards".
time -- much like most professional professions do it (legal, medical & such) -- it's more useful to have the most recent stuff first so each person can go back only as far as they need for context.
But most engineers seem unable to adapt and need a str8 chronological time or their brains melt.
Refer to this: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 It has nothing to do with brain melting and everything to do with logic, content flow and the RFC (standards). We read a book front to back... not back to front. Why should emails be backwards? C. -- openSUSE 13.1 x86_64, KDE 4.13 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org