On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 10:39 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 01/06/2011 07:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > People are free to do what they want in private > > conversations, and the corporate email culture in some companies > > encourages top-posting > > A friend of mine and I came up with a good reason for this once: > standard filing practice (for dead-tree files) is to put the most recent > item at the front so that everything is in reverse-chronological order. > Once you get used to that, top posting becomes the natural way to do > things. The inevitable concomitant of top-posting is that people never trim the quoted material. Once you understand the concept of an archive, it no longer looks like such a good idea. One would think that office workers wouldn't have trouble with this ... poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines