Hi Jason,


"Jason O'Rourke" wrote in message ...
Tesselator wrote:
I want to know what it is about, and I want to see the question coming
before the answer. So do most people.

Then read the first post fist. Do you always start in the middle of a book?

When you read a newspaper, do you start with January 1 and work your way
up to today in June?

So you're saying newspapers should quote the previous days' article and
the top of each article?



Newsgroups have expirations as little as a couple days up to a more typical
few weeks.

Actually the default is one month for all three of the most popular newsreaders
currently in distribution. Good try tho. Additionally if you frequent a
particular newsgroup it usually a good idea to increase that "30 day" default
value to 90 days or so.



And in a long running thread, the first post may or may not
be available, or it may be a few hundred posts ago.

So we should include all that and post at the bottom of a few hundred
quoted messages? Right...



You appear to be posting from Japan, so perhaps bottom to top doesn't
seem so weird to you. But it doesn't really work well with English
or other latin based languages because each portion is still top to bottom.


Ya, I live in Japan where they read top to bottom, right to left, and also
left to right. Both here and in the western world you will notice that
arrangement in both writting and reading: "Top to bottom" When I write,
I start at the top of the page not at the bottom. If I'm writting a paper
on a previously read paper or replying to a recieved mail I do not start
writting at the bottom of /thier/ page. At best I would staple mine "ON TOP"
of thiers including thiers "AT THE BOTOM" underneath mine, as a reference
in case it needed to be used as such.

But all this is getting rather silly. As we /should/ both know there are
legitimate claims for all three styles; top, bottom, and in-line. Not any
ONE of them being more or less "correct" than any other. My real statement
here is: Do as you please just don't try and enforce that as being a rule
of some kind when it's clearly not. _and_ Please realize how completely
anal it would be to try and do so.