On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:54:04 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>As far as e-mail, I disagree. Since the inception of intra-company e-mail,
>it has been a common and expected practice to top post when replying. For
>example, back in the early 1980s when e-mail was introduced nationally
>within the Bell System, instructions to top post when replying to an e-
>mail were explicitly given to employees. I know this was common in other
>large companies as well.

Because nobody wants to plow through old comments to find the new
ones. If they're new to the thread, then *they* should be the ones
reading it in reverse order.


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