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At 07:54 on Monday, 22 Mar 2004, Chris Pressey wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:50:14 -0500
> "Denny Jodeit" <denny@jodeit.com> wrote:
>
>> It boils down to a 'When in Rome, do as Romans do' situation. The
>> charter states no top posting.
>
> I made sure to re-read the list charter when this thread started.  I
> couldn't find a single mention of top posting.  The closest thing I
> could find is that "gross breaches of Netiquette" are "frowned upon but
> not specifically enforced."

Perhaps the original poster meant point 9 on "how to answer a question"  
here:

http://www.lemis.com/questions.html#answer

seems pretty clear to me.