It is indeed a hassle for those of us who subscribe to lots of blind-interest lists (which tend to prefer top-posting), lots of other lists (which tend to prefer quotations interspersed with commentary), and also conduct lots of office email correspondence (where top-posting is often the norm, probably to facilitate forwarding topics around). I think blind-interest lists' preference for top-posting basically reflects unnecessary screen reader limitations. (As far as I know there's no technical barrier to jumping from one bit of new commentary to another, for example.)
Thunderbird does make things easier (it has a Paste as Quotation command). And there's also a macro for doing something similar when composing emails in Word which might help:
http://urlx.org/mc-thias.org/2d9b9 -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis Kane Brolin wrote:
I just survived a weekend-long flame war on another list that resulted from a debate over how a message should be posted: top-posted, bottom-posted, or inline with contextual quotations. (I think I still have second-degree burns. Ouch!) I had no idea the culture of some lists is so sensitive to this. So I'm wondering whether there is a function or add-on for Outlook Express that makes it easy for a totally blind person using JAWS to take snippets of a prior message in a string and to cut&paste such snippets into one's own reply. I've seen this done before; but to do it myself, I've needed to export the original message to a Word processing program, do manual editing inside of it (as with Microsoft Word), and then paste the result back into the body of a new e-mail message. The only way I've known to reply automatically with any context in Outlook Express is through bottom- or top-posting. What is the best way for doing this? Or should I switch to another e-mail client such as Thunderbird? Kind regards, -Kane -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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