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

From: Philipp Thomas (philipp.thomas_at_t-link.de)
Date: 03/07/04

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Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 13:38:53 +0100

    jaska <jaska@ritari.fi> [Sat, 6 Mar 2004 23:38:31 +0200]:

    >I do understand that trimming is needed when bottom-posting, but when
    >top-posting, just add the reply on top, perhaps deleting something from the
    >original message, and go-on with whatever I was doing.

    When writing letters, do you include photocopies of all the previous
    letters?

    When talking to someone, do you recite the complete discussion up to
    that point?

    By quoting in full length with your reply at the top you force others to
    read much more then would be necessary for the discussion. If I want to
    follow a discussion I simply read the previous mails in the thread or
    search the archives of a mailing list.
    In my eyes, top-posting and full-quoting is nothing but laziness because
    replying in an intelligent way would mean a bit more work.
    I at least usually skip top-post mails because I won't waste time trying
    to understand the context.

    Top-posting, full quotes and a few other annoyances have made
    suse-linux-e nearly unusable for me and I'm not far away from
    unsubscribing. This is a sad state, because suse-linux-e was different
    when I joined SUSE five years ago. And the german suse-linux list does
    show that things can be different and more pleasant if enough people do
    agree on certain rules for a mailing list.

    Philipp 

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