Re: [Pan-users] Reading an HTML posting when using 'old' Pan

[Rui Maciel]

On 03/23/2012 06:24 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Actually, it's quite reasonable from the proper POV.  In business,
> everything is filed in reverse chronological order and people become
> accustomed to seeing things that way.  Very large numbers of people use
> Outlook every day for business correspondence, and for them, top posting
> is natural and intuitive.

I don't find it reasonable at all.  In fact, it goes against the very 
fundamental form we read or write any text, which is by starting at the 
top and ending at the bottom.  I believe all established forms of 
textual communication on the web, including all sorts of web forums, IM, 
comment sections and even social networking stuff, follow this basic 
principle, and people do business through these things.  So, why is it 
suddenly reasonable to break away from this practice with email?


Rui Maciel