So really, the best and most involved way is to quote and then respond and then quote more intermingling the two.
I personally though have never seen a mailing list where top loading was fround upon. The standard on all the mailing lists I'm on is to Top load which I personally prefer for the screen reader reasons already stated or the quote and response method which also has a nice flow. Bottom loading a message is almost never a good thing. Sited or otherwise.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 7:05 PM Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Mike is in Portillo Chile
This is largely a blind community list, and I explained why we prefer top posting here. For that matter, it is true of other blindn ess lists and a few others I know of that are not related to blindness where plain text messages are the preferred format. If one is going to post one's message below, then it is better to remove much of the preceding message and quote only that part which is relevant to one's reply.----- Original Message ----- From: <pianoman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:02 AM Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Mike is in Portillo Chile Hi, Actually, the correct way to reply to an email list is to post underneath the original message. The reason so many blind peple do it is because as you say you read down. But in many communities they consider top posting to be a bad thing.Virginia, Please put your message at the top of your email post. If you have a problem doing so, there are a few people here who could help. (Unfortunately, using Outlook Express and not having used Eudora, etc., I am not one of them.) The reason why we prefer 'top posting' is that we read linearly with our screen readers, from the top down; and manny of us have already read preceding emails. Do continue to post. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Virginia Korleski" <virginia_korleski@xxxxxxxxx> To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:13 PM Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Mike is in Portillo Chile --- On Wed, 8/13/08, Michael May <MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:From: Michael May <MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Subject: [gps-talkusers] Mike is in Portillo Chile To: "GPS-talkusers-freelists.org" <GPS-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 1:45 PM Thanks to all of you who submitted emails to me off the list as to my location. Several of you guessed the correct country, Chile. Others wisely looked for POIs with my name on them, guessing that I might be at a familiar POI. For example, Valle Nevado, which is a ski resort near Santiago. I am guessing that some of you might not have entered the lat/lon in the same format I gave it to you. I provided it in separate degrees, minutes and seconds. This means you have to enter Degrees, followed by return, then minutes and so forth. You can enter it as one expression in the degree field but only if I gave it to you that way. Some guesses were not very specific like up in the Andes, which is indeed where I am, just a few kilometers from the Argentina border. Richard Turner sent me the following and was the closest: So, would you be somewhere about 52 miles Northeast of Santiago, Chile? Puerto del Sol is 35.85 Miles south of you. If this is right, you have an Applebee's Restaurant 43 miles Southwest of you in Santiago. Have a Steak for me. You needn't go to the MacDonald's. They even have a Starbucks. Nice guesswork Richard. We will set you up with a Sendero freebee, either an upgrade or something of equivalent value. One of the zip files has points for many cities around the world. If you had the one for South America loaded, you would have found a very small town near me called Rio Blanco. That file comes in pretty handy in these countries where we don't yet have street maps. There isn't a point for every city but for most. There are also some pretty good engines on the Internet where you can put in a lat/lon and find out what is nearby. We will put together an email about those in the future. For those of you who wish to read the details of my escapades here in Portillo Chile, check out the Sendero blog, http://www.SenderoGroup.com/blog.htm If it isn't posted yet, it will be shortly. When the next user POI files are posted, you will also have another 100 points or so for Chile I have recorded on this trip.MikeHi Mike I am LOL here. There is a web site that has a game call "Wherein the World", there are a couple of astornmomers who are members of the site. Some have worked ESA site there and people had to fight out where theyare at. Your game is alot like that. I want to play along but problem withmy system keep from trying. I know a few members who might get a bang out of reading about your adventers, would it be ok to past a link to your site just to see what there reaction would be? I think your story might help in some people undstand me.Thanks Virginia Korleski at virginia_korleski@xxxxxxxxx
