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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
