On 2021/09/14 17:37, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
The argument you made in support for top-posting ...on your claim that doctors place information in a most-recently-used order
Some people are so _!@%!_. A patient's medical chart is usually hole punched. Those adding new information place it on the top, since a sheet of paper doesn't have a scroll bar. The scrollbar is emulated by going up 1 sheet of paper where there is space to write. The newest notes are at the top of the stack. To find older, you scroll down the stack, writer-by-writer (usually 1/page). To find history, you go down the stack. Context is the current condition of the patient, just like top posting is about where the discussion currently is at. However, it is easier to scroll back in time on a screen where postings are just lower on the page -- no page turning needed.