Re: Bug#356375: Please include a better description

[Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>]

gregor herrmann wrote:

[cc'd to -english for wording help; including description w/o trimming
for their benefit]

> I changed the descriptions to:
> 
> Description: Tool for recognizing mails/postings in "TOFU" (top-posting) style
>  TOFU is an acronym for "Text oben, Fullquote unten" (German) or
>  "text over, fullquote under" (English), also known as top-posting or
>  jeopardy-style quoting; i.e. writing one's own text above the fully
>  quoted original message in replies to mails or newsgroup posts.
>  .
>  fullquottel performs several tests to decide whether the mail is a "TOFU"
>  mail or not. Each test produces a score. The final sum of the individual 
>  test scores is compared to a threshold. If it is above it, the mail is  
>  classified as TOFU mail ('Fullquottel' is returned). Further more, the 
>  score itself is returned as a number and as a row where each score point
>  produces one *. Each test can be customized via a config file or on the 
>  command line.
>  .
>   Homepage: http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/
> 
> Is this clear enough in your opinion?
>  

You're still continuing the short description in the long description.
Or at least it reads that way.

First, I'd suggest striking the term "TOFU" from the short description;
top-post is perfectly clear. Along with some re-wording, that'd leave
something like this:

	Recognizes top-posted email and usenet replies

Now, for the long description:

Fullquottel performs several tests to determine if a message is written
in the top-post ("TOFU") style: The full response above and a full quote
of the original message below.
.
Each test is customizable and yeilds a score. Fullquottel sums the
scores and returns that sum in several forms useful for sorting email.
.
 Homepage: http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/


Now, I've cut a good deal of etymology from that long description, but I
honestly don't think it belongs there. Also, I'm not completely
satisfied with that wording, so hopefully -l10n-english can be of aid.

>>So, what exactly is tofu mail? I've never heard of it, and Google (with
>>all of 271 results, the first one being your ITP) seems not have have
>>heard either.
> 
> 
> My Google presents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting as the 7th link ;-)

Apparently, my putting "tofu mail" in quotes when searching Google is
why I didn't get any results... but I guess that means no one uses the
term like that