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Re:New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs by Mz on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:50PM (#14573161)
It seems to be a discussion board internet meme. I am not sure of the actual history, but my impression is that it started as "Did you read the fucking article?" which is sometimes rebutted with "Yes, I read the fucking article." and then "read the fucking article" became RTFA and now some people use TFA to mean The Fucking Article. (Or maybe people more polite than me always used RTFA rather than writing it out. I have quite the terrible potty mouth. shrug)
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Re:New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs by pavement on Friday June 16, 2017 @09:47PM (#14573832)
...and RTFA borrows from the older RTFM (which of course pairs with TFM), and "M" indicating the Manual, or rather Instructions Manual, harkening back to the "man" command in Unix.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM

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Re:New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs by tripzilch on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:08AM (#14593086)
in this context it's usually just intended to mean "the featured article". like "OP" on message boards.
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