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I'm with Brian on this one. Scrolling/paging through the entire thread to
get to the new message each time is a pain. It makes sense to me to read the
reply first, referring to the previous messages below it if I need some
context.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Brian Freytag <brifreytag@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At work, we get e-mails that are 10-15 e-mails deep. If I had to
> scroll to the bottom every time just to see the reply, I'd stab myself
> in the face with a soldering iron.
>
> If you can't remember what happened in your e-mail conversation, I'd
> rather have to scroll down to figure that out than to just get the new
> stuff.
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Jay Sullivan <notfed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Douglas Stanley
> > <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Just thought I'd share my thoughts, I really don't like "bottom"
> >> posting. I hate scrolling through an
> >> email trying to decipher where some one answered my questions... I
> >> generally remember what
> >> had been said, I just want to see the response right away, front and
> center.
> >>
> >> So ban me if you will, but I'm a top poster :)
> >>
> >> Doug
> >> President, Top Posters Anonymous
> >>
> > I don't really find myself scrolling all that often. Attached is a
> > word document with more details.
> > --
> > Jay Sullivan
> >
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