resistor for power supply

Hi all,

So far all the suggestions for the power supply for drives shows the
connection from the output of the bridge rectifier direct to the
capacitor (some may have bleed resistor, LED etc in parallel)

An power engineer (who may not have very much experience with CNC
items) mentioned that there will a large current surge on initial
power up (when V on cap is 0) and suggested putting a resistor. My
interpretation of his suggestion

rectifier R
. .-----/\/\/\-----
/ \ |
/ \ _____
/ \ _____ C
\ / |
\ / |
. \./---------------

What does the list think? And if this is an improvement what kind of
relationship R = function (C,I,etc) should there be between R, C etc.

A million thanks to the list

Peter