Re: [SLE] Have you seen this? -- TOFU explained

GarUlbricht7_at_netscape.net
Date: 03/06/04

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To: earl072001@yahoo.com (Martin)

    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.
    >
    >--
    >
    >-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)
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