Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:55:35 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: top posting (off-topic) Message-ID: <20071126055430.5FCE.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20071126024947.GC5574@kobe.laptop> References: <20071126020110.GG29622@demeter.hydra> <20071126024947.GC5574@kobe.laptop>
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> On November 25, 2007 at 09:49PM Giorgos Keramidas wrote: [ snip ] > 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 :) There are some more interesting meaning here: http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=tofu&Find=find&string=exact -- Gerard
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