Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:01:10 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: top posting (off-topic) Message-ID: <20071126020110.GG29622@demeter.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20071126015615.GE29622@demeter.hydra> References: <31AE442CCBC1094ABC40CE85B0149F06468CE8@MAIL1.registry.otago.ac.nz> <47470077.7030706@chrononomicon.com> <20071123184838.GA18711@parts-unknown.org> <20071126015615.GE29622@demeter.hydra>
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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 -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production."
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