Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At Friday 19/1/2007 18:43, Carroll, Barry wrote: > > >Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention > >that mandates against top-posting. This is not sarcasm; I would > >really like to see it. > > There are some guidelines, like RFC 1855 (not a real standard, or > enforced in any way):
They *are* enforced: by social convention. In other words, they're codified recordings of behaviour the society prefers. To the extent that's true, they are enforced by that society. -- \ "I met my girlfriend in Macy's; she was buying clothes, and I | `\ was putting Slinkies on the escalators." -- Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
