Essjay001 wrote:

parish wrote:

Of course it is important to distinguish between e-mail and Usenet.

No it is important that the responder reads the replies. I was talking about
paper office files

Huh? Your comment, to which I was replying, said:

"My point being that every office I have worked always place the latest
correspondence on the top not just the government ones"

I see no mention of paper; and why should what is done with paper have
any relevance to this discussion? We are talking about Usenet (and, I
guess, e-mail).