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Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin


On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:

> On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote:
> > I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here.
> > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU> 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."

Oh, we'll read top-posted replies...  But we will also complain, sometimes
loudly.

How about the following?

> 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).
> __DON'T DO THAT.__
> Often combined with raw e-mail addresses in quoted messages (see
> PCYMTNQREAIYR). Added after repeated requests from Corinna Vinschen

(added text capitalized and __underlined__).

> Some folks could the definition and think this is the ~preferred~ way
> to format messages to this list.

Heh.  Now that would be an interesting conclusion to make from the "hard
to read" bit...

> 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)...

TUPO means "in a dumb way", or "stupidly" in (transliterated) Russian.
So that acronym wouldn't be my first choice for our preferred posting
format... :-)
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