# Email: newest on top, or newest on bottom? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 30, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-newest-on-top-or-newest-on-bottom/310526 "2005-06-30T15:16:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-newest-on-top-or-newest-on-bottom/310526/21 "2005-06-30T19:44:58Z")
When I used Outlook for personal email, newest ast the bottom. And to all those who say “I don’t want to scroll to see new emails”, I assume you must use a web-based email? I never had to scroll, once I clicked in inbox it would auto-highlight the first message. Anyways, I stopped using Outlok for personal mail and keep it in the webserver it uses, and in that case newest on top cause I would have to scroll to see new ones in that case. My work email has then at the top because that was the default and I never changed it. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-newest-on-top-or-newest-on-bottom/310526/22 "2005-06-30T20:12:45Z")
> [@UrbanChic](#): > > So tell me, what do you find to be the best method to dispose of a body? Knowing you bottom-sorters, you probably keep the bodies around, arranged from oldest to freshest kill. > > Sickos. No, they’re in the cellar. From furthest away from the door to closest. Chaaaaarrrge! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-newest-on-top-or-newest-on-bottom/310526/23 "2005-07-01T04:24:48Z")
Oldest at the top and read them in order. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-newest-on-top-or-newest-on-bottom/310526/24 "2005-07-01T16:05:28Z")
Correction: at work I have the newest on the top and I get a notification whenever I receive a new mail. At home the newest is on the bottom ---
**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-newest-on-top-or-newest-on-bottom/310526/25 "2005-07-01T21:32:34Z")
Newest on bottom, and I have a great lawyer. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-newest-on-top-or-newest-on-bottom/310526/26 "2005-07-01T21:42:35Z")
Newest are on top, and I read them in no particular order. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-newest-on-top-or-newest-on-bottom/310526/27 "2005-07-01T21:44:23Z")
Top, and I don’t delete, archive or file anything except spam - it’s all there still, just off the bottom of the page. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-newest-on-top-or-newest-on-bottom/310526/28 "2005-07-01T21:54:26Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > Bodies: Same. Obviously, you want to dispose of the oldest first, because they’re the stinkiest. I try not to let them pile up, but these things are hard to stay on top of. I mean, I’ve already got four in the resevoir, five in the woods, and three have gone up the chimney. As soon as I finish that lime pit in the basement, though, all my problems will be solved. But if you have a stack of bodies with the newest-dead one on the _bottom_ of the pile, it gets complicated when you kill a new one. You pretty much have to lift up the whole pile of dead bodies to wedge the new corpse in there under them. It makes so much more sense to fling the new victim up on _top_ of a pile. The bottom ones, when old enough, decompose all by themselves and sort of melt away. Amateurs. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-newest-on-top-or-newest-on-bottom/310526/29 "2005-07-02T02:15:55Z")
I list them with the newest at the bottom. I view everything else in ascending order (such as file listings) from top to bottom, so I figure the email might as well be the same. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-newest-on-top-or-newest-on-bottom/310526/30 "2005-07-02T02:30:53Z")
newest on the top. I work multiple time zones and get 100+ emails per day for a multinational. At least 1/2 of the emails I get are part of a group thread or the pertinient piece to me does not reside with the OP. It’s a waste of time to start from the oldest emails for me. Use a thread compressor or search for all mail with the same title and delete all but the newest reply. And if that email is important, then I go back to the beginning and read the thread through sequentually. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-newest-on-top-or-newest-on-bottom/310526/31 "2005-07-02T03:20:51Z")
Newest on top, definitely. I have 12 pages in my Hotmail Inbox and 81 pages in my Yahoo! Inbox. It wouldn’t make sense for me to sort it any other way. It’s also how I like to sort documents if I’m sorting by date. Most recent documents first, oldest documents last. I want to do as little scrolling as possible to get to the documents or emails I need. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-newest-on-top-or-newest-on-bottom/310526.md?page=1)