On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 10:39 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > 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.
Mostly because it's more difficult to add a page to the back of a file, rather than because it was convenient for any other reason. > Once you get used to that, top posting becomes the natural way to do > things. It's still an annoying habit, and difficult to read through, in the first place. Simply perpetuating a strange practice doesn't really make it natural. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
