From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 20 08:27:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8D816A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 08:27:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2171743D1D for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 08:27:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 758A31A7; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:27:26 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:27:26 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040320162726.GI3884@seekingfire.com> References: <20040319172130.GB2044@cs025_2k> <20040319174618.GH64130@keyslapper.org> <200403191428.24150.cmcmanis@mcmanis.com> <20040319223506.GA63254@bhunter.net> <20040319232459.GF3884@seekingfire.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20040319222056.03ea2bd8@66.125.189.29> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20040319222056.03ea2bd8@66.125.189.29> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: Top posting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:27:29 -0000 On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 10:41:14PM -0800, Chuck McManis wrote: > At 03:24 PM 3/19/2004, you wrote: > >Top-posting may be an opinion, but RFC 1855 makes it _standard_ opinion. > > Let's get serious for a minute here. Just because someone wrote up an > INFORMATIONAL RFC does NOT make it STANDARD. It makes it INFORMATIONAL. Big > difference. Go look up RFC 2026 for what it takes to become a standard. Absolutely. I'm very aware of the RFC process. But bottom-posting has been published as an RFC since Oct of 1995 and nobody has published any alternative since then. That doesn't make bottom posting *the* standard, it makes it a standard opinion (as no contrary opinions have been published). Of course, now that I've said that karma dictates that somebody is drafting up an alternative netiquette RFC at this very minute ;-) -T -- Draw bamboos for ten years, become a bamboo, then forget all about bamboos when you are drawing. Georges Duthuit