It appears that John Scudder <jgs@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: >> On Aug 23, 2023, at 3:02 PM, Andrew Newton <andy@xxxxxx> wrote: >... >> Maybe we write down the conventions and then kindly ask a set of >> people to voluntarily follow them if possible. > >Possibly I’m falling afoul of Poe’s Law [1] here, but Tom Petch pointed out (albeit telegraphically to a fault) that this has been done: FYI 28, a.k.a. >https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt, and in particular Section 3. I took a look and you know, other than the bit about top posting which these days is a religious argument, the advice stands up pretty well. Some of us still are on usenet and the advice in 3.2.3 has also aged well. R's, John
