X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: TOFU (was: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:11:44 -0500 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <453ED2D3.6060900@cygwin.com> <453ED72F.2060501@cygwin.com> <31b7d2790610251012o47c856fy26a0f108f7601fd6@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <31b7d2790610251012o47c856fy26a0f108f7601fd6@mail.gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: >> I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here. >> again. Reformatted. > > The entry just defines TOFU: > Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, "Text Oben, > Fullquote Unten"). A combination of top posting and full quoting, > which makes the messages hard to read (accoring to RFC 1855). Often > combined with raw e-mail addresses in quoted messages (see > PCYMTNQREAIYR). Added after repeated requests from Corinna Vinschen > > It doesn't stress enough that "hard to read" means "please don't post > in this way if you want people to read your posts and take you > seriously." > > Some folks could the definition and think this is the ~preferred~ way > to format messages to this list. > > Maybe there should be an entry for what doing it the right way is > called. I haven't heard TUPO (Text Under Partial-quotes Over)... Wouldn't that be PQRCAORCAAYRB (Please Quote Relevant Context (And /Only/ Relevant Context) And Append Your Reply Below)? :-) -- Matthew When on POSIX, do as POSIX mandates. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/