plaintext email?

Tue Jan 15 05:56:42 UTC 2019

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.kletnieks at 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, bzs at 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.
>
>
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