"Tesselator" <jimmmboe@hotmail.com> writes:

> I couldn't disagree more!  So you're saying that if I "publish" guidelines
> specifying some sort of rediculousness like top or bottom posting you're
> willing to accept that as /word/.  What a dull and dreary life it is to be
> such a conformist.  To live your life and control your behavior based on
> the published guidlines produced by some dweeb in a dark corner of some
> office who most likely know less about life than you yourself.  No thank
> you.  I'm quite happy thinking for myself and questioning athority.

RFCs are the nearest things you'll find to peer-reviewed publications
on the general 'net. If you "publish" an RFC, then you have a very good
idea of what's going on.

> BTW, I have indeed read such things.  They are to be taken with a grain of
> salt.  Most of them even say so!  Either in the footnotes or right in the
> text body as they lay out for you the "proposed" /general/ guidelines.

I'm sure that you'd take any excuse to continue being lazy.

B>