TOFU (Usenet and Internet)

TOFU ( text over, fullquote under ), literally text above, quotation supplements in lower part , means to answer above the message of origin, the latter being quoted in its entirety (it can be a message in a Forum Internet, a email or an article Usenet). This practice is regarded as bad by netiquette, because it makes the discussions impossible to follow in the logical and usual order of the reading “to Western”. The following fictitious exchange is a humorous criticism of this practice (an alternative limited to four lines is often present in the signatures of the Usenet articles):

Moreover, the volume of the exchanges is increased considerably by it, because each new message takes again the integrality of those which precede, including the signature S and the Publicité S sometimes included in the emails and the messages of forum (whereas one is incited to erase them when one answers in bottom and that these useless lines are thus with range of cursor).

The TOFU belongs to the practices called familiarly quotage of Goret or, in Franglais, goret-quotage (the verb quote in English meaning to quote ) or, of manner of joke, porcinography (for example on certain Usenet forums).

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art and manner of answering on Usenet
Translation of the netiquette
Defense of the TOFU

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