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Alas! David T-G spake thus: > Rob, et al -- >=20 > [Even if Sean sent to @gbnet.net that doesn't mean you should, young man.] Nah, I let mutt figure out where to send the reply. I have better things to do ;) > % algorithms, there is *no*way* that you can correct TOFU. Your best bet > % is to just make a vim macro that copies all the text from before the > % quote to after the quote. >=20 > And how is that not a good start, and a programmatic one at that? It doesn't really acomplish much; just changes TOFU into TUFO. > Unfortunately, it doesn't *really* solve the problem, since now you > have a huge bottom-post (not necessarily a huge-bottom post, though > coincidence isn't ruled out ;-) and still have to clean it up. And you thought TOFU tasted bad ;) > My answer to top-posters is to go to the first of their quoted lines and > delete from there to my sig and then reply in context. Too bad if they > don't like it :-) The entire TOFU mentality can, I believe, be summed up > as 1) throw away all but the most recent message (assuming you keep any in > the first place) in the thread, since the entire thread is self-contained, > and 2) if anyone is new s/he will easily be able to read the whole thread > and catch up. I don't subscribe to either of those viewpoints. I'm #1. Keep the TO, nuke the FU. --=20 Rob 'Feztaa' Park http://members.shaw.ca/feztaa/ -- Delay not, Caesar. Read it instantly. -- Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 3,1 =20 Here is a letter, read it at your leisure. -- Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice" 5,1 =20 [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to I/O system services.] --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9Bn8UPTh2iSBKeccRAt9rAJ48pFdSMl/BoPYypN+Q9LXcY8QOEwCfcUGT TuHF5cXGwOpQY84svAyNIDM= =S770 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi--
