Martin You asked what TOFU is: I will quote an old mail: *At 11:19 06/05/2002 -0700, Christopher Mahmood wrote in a post entitled:"[SLE] Please stop TOFU"
* (name withheld to protect the innocent)
What does TOFU mean?
"Text oben, full quote unten" (sorry if I misspelled that). It's the Jeopardy-style follow-ups that so many people seem to think are OK.
i.e., instead of you replying to post of mine by carefully trimming the amount of the text you quote and then add your follow-up below it, you add your answer "above" and then quote my entire email below.
It's amazingly rude and ugly, even worse than Cc'ing a poster when replying to the list.
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-ckm
Reference: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Jun/ http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Jun/0536.html OK, that is (was) Chris's opinion -- and he is no longer on the list, but many who are -- especially one's who know the answers --- don't like TOFU becasue it slows down their reading, and replying to people wh=o need help. (Many of them have very high reading rates) Look at your logs -- the most recent stuff is at the bottom. Remember teletypes --- the last message is at the bottom Look at the archieves...last reply is at the bottom Bottom line -- do it at your own peril. Look at this post... I will leave it as an exercise for the reader about M$ mentality. There is a full moon out -- and we don't need any more flames... Hope this helps, Remember, google is your friend, Gar -- "The IETF motto is 'rough consensus and running code'" -- David D. Clark (as quoted in: Unix, POSIX and Open Systems, John S. Quarterman p. 206) -- __________________________________________________________________ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp