On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 12:05 AM Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 10:17:27 +0800, Jach Fong <jf...@ms4.hinet.net> > declaimed the following: > > > >It was supposed that most discussant want to see the reply message > >instantly when they open the mail. They already know what is going on > >and no need to pass through all those previous message. "top posting" > >seems more reasonable to me:-) > > > > Such behavior reflects > 1) personal (1 to 1) replies, where the recipient should already know the > subject of the matter (having written it in the first place);
Which assumes that the recipient of your message has sent few enough messages that s/he remembers the content of all of them. I don't know about you, but that certainly isn't true of me. If you're replying to anything more than a week old, I'm going to be looking at the quoted context to see what I said. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
