On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: > > I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here. > > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU> again. Reformatted. > > The entry just defines TOFU: > Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, "Text Oben, > Fullquote Unten"). A combination of top posting and full quoting, > which makes the messages hard to read (accoring to RFC 1855). Often > combined with raw e-mail addresses in quoted messages (see > PCYMTNQREAIYR). Added after repeated requests from Corinna Vinschen > > It doesn't stress enough that "hard to read" means "please don't post > in this way if you want people to read your posts and take you > seriously."
Oh, we'll read top-posted replies... But we will also complain, sometimes loudly. How about the following? > Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, "Text Oben, > Fullquote Unten"). A combination of top posting and full quoting, > which makes the messages hard to read (accoring to RFC 1855). > __DON'T DO THAT.__ > Often combined with raw e-mail addresses in quoted messages (see > PCYMTNQREAIYR). Added after repeated requests from Corinna Vinschen (added text capitalized and __underlined__). > Some folks could the definition and think this is the ~preferred~ way > to format messages to this list. Heh. Now that would be an interesting conclusion to make from the "hard to read" bit... > Maybe there should be an entry for what doing it the right way is > called. I haven't heard TUPO (Text Under Partial-quotes Over)... TUPO means "in a dumb way", or "stupidly" in (transliterated) Russian. So that acronym wouldn't be my first choice for our preferred posting format... :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/