There's RFC 1855 of course: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 , a memo which "does not specify an Internet standard of any kind". The one mention of bottom-posting is that you should include "summarize the original at the top of the message" or "include just enough text of the original to give a context" "at the top of your message".
This pretty much summarizes my view: * http://web.archive.org/web/20070607221125/http://alpage.ath.cx/toppost/toppost.htm Either way, top-posting is now the de-facto standard in the world, and if you go on about it you will just look like a curmudgeon. Wikipedia says: > This widespread policy in business communication made bottom and inline > posting so unknown among most users that some of the most popular email > programs no longer support the traditional posting style See also: http://emailclientmarketshare.com/ Cheers, Ben From: Suresh Ramasubramanian Sent: 08 September 2015 01:53 > On 08-Sep-2015, at 2:15 am, Bron Gondwana <br...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > How can you be a special snowflake and make your own stamp on the world if > you follow a standard? > > Bron ( responding to a top post with a standard form of quoting... ) The top posting, bottom posting and interleaved quoting camps need conversion between each other much like 8 bit to quoted printable, say. Some kind soul might want to come up with an RFC on this.
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