Is there a partiton size limit?

[Thorny]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:02:04 -0700, don fisher wrote:

> I will do that. But I am curious. Do you know why that is termed "proper
> etiquette"? The mail reader I use, Thunderbird, opens an email at the top.
> Is is a bit annoying have to scroll to the end to find the reply.
>

The short answer is that it has been established etiquette since before
Ubuntu and Thunderbird were born.

For a longer answer:

A search engine can be your friend. These are the first three hits I got:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

For further fun you might search the archives of this list for threads
about the issue, lots of opinions to read.