On Jan 8, 2012, at 14:31, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > wrote: >> Top-posting is appropriate for short responses that address the entirety of >> the replied message. > > Where does it say that? I'm looking at the guidelines at > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.4.x/www/mailing-list-guidelines.html, > which include no such caveat.
From that very page: > There are even situations where top-posting is preferable — for example, when > the response is short and general, and applies to the entirety of a long > passage of quoted text. So top-posting is always a judgement call, and in any > case it's not a major inconvenience even when done inappropriately. The current published URL for that by the way is http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/mailing-lists.html#top-posting