Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 08/04/12 23:54, PMA wrote: <snipped>I was caught up thinking how a personal signature -- choosing in a given instance to enter it or not -- can affect a message's import, separately from the issue of verification.Oh good - I couldn't get my head around it when applied to a digital signature used to show the post had not been modified since sending, and was sent by the person claiming to have sent it.
I sense I'm willfully misunderstood, but in any case am dropping this issue.
...I have no wish to ignore the convention. My memory's failing some. I'll attune better to *which* posting convention (list) I find myself in.My bad - I'd mistaken you for someone trolling the "it's not a rule" "let's vote on it" line :-(
That was *not* trolling. The LilyPond list (a digital-music-scoring site) had been debating just this top/bottom posting-style issue, and had fielded exactly this suggestion -- a vote among the list members. It struck especially as potentially helpful in the thread here. If my style in offering it was inappropriately cavalier, I apologize for that.