And just imagine what email threading might be like today ... ... if early email clients had defaulted to displaying the *bottom* of the thread (as if you'd scrolled there).
Thoughtful UX design matters. -- Royce Williams Tech Solvency On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 8:39 PM <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? > > And now you're sitting here wondering what possible relevance that might > have > to some line or other - the only context you have at this point is that > it's a > reply to something you wrote. Actually, at this point you don't even have > that. > > So you may have read this entire thing and now you're still wondering what > possible relevance it may have to the thread. > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:24:30 -0500, b...@theworld.com said: > > Why dig through what you've already read to see the new comments? > > Or you can put the comment after, so everybody who reads text top to > bottom has > the context. I'm not away of any languages or writing systems that work > from > bottom to top, so that's pretty much everybody. And if people trimmed the > quoted material so only the parts being replied to are left, there's not > much > digging involved. > >