On 07/07/2014 03:53 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-07-08 00:35, Linda Walsh wrote:
Most people today display email on a GUI and TTY's are only emulated for console-related work. I don't know of ANY email reader that displays the last page of an email, by default, when you display it. This means that if the new content isn't on the first page, people have to move off of the message selection interface over to the reading interface to adjust it. Did you have to page down to see this reply? I guess not. >:-)
Nope, but then if I forgot what this was all about, I'd have to fish through eleventy-hundred previous emails, some of which might be deleted by now. As Linda says, editing/bottom-posting is fine for casual conversations, but when you need to preserve context and references as concisely and reliably as possible, you top-post. What does a bottom posted thread look like when you have to print it out for archival purposes, after all? But be honest, how many times have you had to page down many times in order to see a one-lined bone-headed response in a bottom-posted missive? How many times have you started to page down and said to yourself, "Screw it, I've got better things to do!". I've done this many times myself... Please note that it is what it is, and if the custom here is to bottom post I'm personally fine with that. I still think my one exception was reasonable in that particular case. This top/bottom post religious war has been going on forever, let's let it die or bring it to offtopic? It might distract us from the incessant wars about same-sex marriage! Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org