Eric Scheid wrote:
This makes perfect sense if you're a human reading messages, but now try
and
understand it from the point of view of a computer program (an Atom
processor). The computer doesn't care which messages came first.
Yes, the _computer_ does *not* care. So why should it's preference trump
the
human reader?
Personally I wouldn't care at all except for one reason. There exists a
published "specification" that defines "next" as pointing to the next most
recent archive, and at least one feed that follows that spec. Whatever is
decided for the new protocol I would feel obliged to support that old
protocol as well. If the two disagree that makes the process somewhat more
complicated.
Everything else you say, while perfectly reasonable, does not inspire me to
accept the extra effort involved without at least a mild protest.
But that would take all the fun out of things ;-)
True. We wouldn't want that.
Regards
James
