From: fburton@... (Francis Burton) Date: 2008-05-28T04:14:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Top-posting In article , Mark Wilden wrote: >> commonly accepted guidelines, as described here: >> >> http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 > >These guidelines are not commonly accepted. Maybe not in toto, but the bit about bottom posting is! >I disagree also with one of them in the RFC: always apologize for >cross-posting. That makes no sense. If in a particular case it's bad >to cross-post (and it often is), then just don't do it. If it's not >bad, what's there to apologize for? :) I agree, that makes no sense. The frowning upon follow-ups to your own post seems unjustified too - addenda, corrections and retractions are entirely reasonable. Francis