• slazer2au@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I don’t understand.

      Some forums will place the chain at the top of a post so you can read top to bottom.

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        Others like email will put the most recent message at the top so you need to scroll to the bottom.

        Some forums will place the chain at the top of a post so you can read top to bottom.

        I don’t understand.

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          Microsoft Outlook started this stupid shit.

          Before then, emails (and Usenet posts) were always appended to the bottom, and good netiquette required one to intentionally quote the specific germane lines from the previous message and respond to them inline, point-by-point, for brevity, conciseness, and context, just as God intended.