Re: [tlug] Better to have "bottom-posted"?

[Gernot Hassenpflug <aikishugyo@example.com>]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com> wrote:
> On 2009-11-10 19:38 +0900 (Tue), Michael Bitker wrote:
>> What happens if I post in the middle?
> You get counted in my survey as someone who quotes too much, but not as a bottom-poster.

I became aware of at least one new distinction in this thread: namely,
that bottom-posting is not the word to use for describing "proper"
posting standards for thread-capable mail/news clients.
It is my understanding that "proper" posting standards compliant with
threading involves possibly writing after any or all of the lines in
previous messages in a thread, with appropriate snipping of same;
while avoiding writing before any of the message "header" lines (the
ones stating date, time and writer of a particular nested thread in
the message).
But is there a name (or token <g>) for such a "proper" style? If so,
it is too obvious for me, I must have missed it all this time! Or
simply referred to via a RFC number?
Regards, Gernot