On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
seams reasonable to use a style that is optimal for us not sighted people. They easily skim downward with their eyes to new content or have different speakers shown in different colors, etc.
Well, I am a braille reader and can scim passed the > signs.So can speech-users since you just listen for ">" which is the first character of the line and continue pressing down arrow...
You are absolutely right, however, that this tends to be the norm on sighted, technical lists. It is one reason I dropped off the Ruby list
Lots of blind user lists use it like brltty or blinux...
-- it was quite inefficient for me and my top posting repeatedly got criticized by others.
Top-posting can get annoying I have to admit. But I wouldn't complain about it personally.
Personally, I think it is as efficient for everyone to summarize the points to which one is responding as part of one's response, rather than inserting quotes and going back and forth between the quotes and one's responses to them. I find it a bit of a cop out that someone is not willing to summarize their understanding of what the other person said, but instead has to quote it verbatim. Email is supposed to be an an informal, efficient medium, not one intended for academic or legal,
Yes, but quoting is easier for the reader and writer... -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> __________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
