On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:33:03PM -0600, David W. Tamkin wrote:
| just my thoughts. I usually just sit and watch, although I become
| quite frustrated by TOFU and excessive quoting.
Whjile I know what tofu is, I don't recognize its use as an acronym. What
does it mean, if I may ask?
"Text Oben, Full-quote Unten". Usenet slang, German for "text above,
full-quote below". Wasteful, encourages incomplete responses, etc.
Much better to intersperse response blocks with quoted text blocks.
Improves readability, mail moves a little faster....
The bandwidth related arguments are largely spurious these days, but a
few people hang on to them perhaps for the sake of tradition.
--
Paul Chvostek
<paul(_at_)it(_dot_)ca>
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