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Soften anti-top-posting rule.

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IIRC Karen Sandler criticized the anti-top-posting rule as unduly
harsh and exclusionary in http://faif.us/cast/2014/jul/01/0x48/. In
practice, this rule was not strictly enforced on the copyleft-next
mailing list (and it may be relevant that the free software
credentials of the 'violator' in question were impeccable).
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@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ informally as the "Harvey Birdman Rule":
manner or medium accessible to the general net public.
4. Contributing by informal suggestions or proposals made in a
posting to the project mailing list is welcome. However, any such
suggestions or proposals that are made in the form of top-posted
replies to quoted earlier mailing list postings by others are
unacceptable and therefore shall be ignored.
posting to the project mailing list is welcome. However, suggestions
or proposals that are made in the form of top-posted replies to
quoted earlier mailing list postings by others are strongly
discouraged.
5. Criticisms of, or proposed changes to, the Harvey Birdman Rule
are welcome, though such criticisms or proposals must themselves