Also remember that most of us "professionals" are forced to use MS
Outlook for our mail client, and Outlook makes it impossible (or at
least difficult) to bottom-post or inter-post and understand what is
new text, and what is from the previous e-mail - It doesn't add ">" to
the start of lines from the previous e-mail to delineate who said what.
Prentice
-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jim Perrin
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:57 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: Re: Centos 5 timeline?
> This is a personal preference; most professional records are kept
> with the most recent item on top (read: at the front) of a physical
> file. Even the public library does it that way :)
Most professionals are a loose definition of the term. It depends
primarily on the data need though. For archival purposes, you want the
data to flow in a meaningful fashion so that people can look up the
material and follow it in a logical manner. Most people are just
concerned with GIVE IT TO ME NOW, so they want it at the top.
Microsoft and other companies producing email clients have reinforced
this lazy belief by prepending in the reply.
For business emails and such that don't matter, top posting is probably
fine. For archived mailing lists, coherent threading is key so that the
information can be referenced later.
--
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a
revolutionary act.
George Orwell
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