Re: fedora 14 & compiz

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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

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