From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 02:50:24 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1BB16A419 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:50:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E1213C45B for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:50:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (dialup75.ach.sch.gr [81.186.70.75]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id lAQ2no4l018982 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:49:59 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id lAQ2nmar005873 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:49:49 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id lAQ2nlf2005872 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:49:47 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:49:47 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071126024947.GC5574@kobe.laptop> References: <31AE442CCBC1094ABC40CE85B0149F06468CE8@MAIL1.registry.otago.ac.nz> <47470077.7030706@chrononomicon.com> <20071123184838.GA18711@parts-unknown.org> <20071126015615.GE29622@demeter.hydra> <20071126020110.GG29622@demeter.hydra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071126020110.GG29622@demeter.hydra> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.944, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.46, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: top posting (off-topic) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:50:24 -0000 On 2007-11-25 19:01, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:56:15PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > I think it's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem: we don't really know for > > sure whether TOFU[1] posting spurred much of the rise of illiteracy or > > the increase of relative illiteracy on the Internet led to an increase in > > TOFU posting. Which came first? > > I forgot to include the footnote about TOFU in the preceding message. It > would have looked something like this: > > [1]: TOFU = Text Over, Fullquote Under; the most common format of top > posted replies The footnote was easy to understand after a quick Wikipedia search: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting Quoting the text (so list members don't have to actually repeat the search): Some maintain that top-posting is _never_ appropriate, and refer to it jokingly as the "TOFU" method (from the German "text oben, fullquote unten", sometimes translated "text over, fullquote under") [...] Nice one. I had not heard of "TOFU posting" before :)