From 1fa933b2953cc70d76a28e74d889f35adb3f0b69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Fontana Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 20:25:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Soften anti-top-posting rule. 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). --- HBR.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/HBR.md b/HBR.md index 132d100..0e37a52 100644 --- a/HBR.md +++ b/HBR.md @@ -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