Top-posting

[Michael A. Yetto]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:02:30 +0200
Paolo Bolzoni <paolo.bolzoni.brown at gmail.com> wrote:

>I think this text (or variants) are old as email itself and
>actually, while funny, makes little sense.
>

It makes quite a bit of sense when you are dragged into a thread
that has gone on for a while.

>When you follow an email thread you do not read everything, you
>just read the new email and it makes little difference if it is
>in the top. Besides most email clients actually put an
>indentation in the quoted text so it should look like:
>

You do if you must figure out what the problem is that the wrong
people have been discussing for a week.

Go to the bottom of the message.

Backup to the start of the oldest part not yet read.

Read that part till you get to the end of what you have
previously read.

Backup to the start of the oldest part not yet read.

Read that part till you get to the end of what you have
previously read.

Lather, rinse, repeat.


Mike Yetto
-- 
"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."
 - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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