Re: Converting TOFU into something less unreasonable

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Thursday,  3 Jan 2019 at 14:19, Adam Sjøgren wrote:
> Eric writes:
>> A lazy excuse that has also been used on me.  I do wonder if anybody
>> that uses this excuse has ever actually tried to read a conversation
>> consisting of top posted messages?  It's an up&down back&forth scrolling
>> nightmare.
>
> If everybody does TOFU, you just read from the bottom to the top.

Yes except that if any previous email is longer than a screen's worth,
you page up to find start of that message, page down to read, then page
up to find start of next message, etc. ad nauseum.

> I think the valid point they have is that you can only get the entire
> history if the person who forwards the emails has been in on the
> conversation from the beginning, and that person has to forward all the
> emails, not just the latest.

That's just an excuse for a possible shortcoming in whatever MUA is
being used as you should be able to mark all desired emails and send
these on as a bundle.

Anyway, on this list, we're all pretty much on the same page...  Hope
somebody gets motivated enough to write some elisp to create a TOFU
specific washing function!

And I liked the quote you gave.

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.14 on Debian buster/sid