top posting (off-topic)
Gerard Seibert
gerard at seibercom.net
Mon Nov 26 02:55:24 PST 2007
> 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
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Gerard
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