On Tue, Sep 8, 2015, at 18:47, b...@liddicott.com wrote: > 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 > justenough 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[1] > > > 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: Woah, I should have put more smileys on that ;) ;) :) !111!!!!!!111:p > > 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. > -- Bron Gondwana br...@fastmail.fm Links: 1. http://web.archive.org/web/20070607221125/http:/alpage.ath.cx/toppost/toppost.htm
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