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Further, here is a quote from the web address in the new footer that
explains what has happened and why it was done. The irony that that footer
has a link to this information but was being completely ignored is not lost
on me.........
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Basically, the problem, often referred to as TOFU, is a waste of limited
resources. The acronym comes from German, basically meaning original on
top, full reply under, but even with three years of German in high school I
can't remember the exact phrase.
The "death trailer" was added to most of the autox.team.net lists due to
the fact that some lists had over 80% of the bits they were pushing along
the wire being stuff people had already seen, and had no need to see again.
The analogy I used was it was like buying a 6 pack of your favorite
beverage, and getting one can of fresh, 5 cans of, uh, used beverage. So
some simple filters were put in place to reduce the waste.
There are lots of lists, and about 4 to 5 millions messages go out every
month to around 15,000 addresses all over the world. All that useless
quoting really adds up in congestion on the network line in and out of the
server, archive sizes being much larger than they need to be, the indexing
prgrams for the searchable web search having to do a lot extra work both in
the initial indexing of repetitive paragraphs and performing searches for
the user. I mean, how useful is it to return the default limit of 50
matches if 49 of them are the same paragraph?
There is no real reason to include the complete text below one's message.
Quite often the subject line alone is sufficient context, sometimes you may
need to include a sentence or two to provide proper references to your
reply. I really doubt there are cases where one needs to include full
headers, signatures, and complete texts of the original in replies.
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