Hi Chris, On Friday 18 Mar 2011 14:36:35 Christopher Brannon wrote: > Shlomi Fish <shlomif@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I've been thinking that maybe such two-column and ASCII-art-bases > > signature is not very accessible to people using screen-readers and/or > > Braille-devices > > I took about 30 seconds to completely digest it. I use speech. > Not bad, really. Does not sound too good. > The sig at the end of your message is perfectly readable, though. > Nice, thanks. > Signatures have never bothered me, either way. If I'm going to > complain about email practices, I'd rather complain about overquoting. > I've seen people reply to messages, where the reply contains two lines > of text, with the entire thread quoted at the bottom. Yes. > Seriously, some replies have included 5 or 10 quoted messages. > It seems to have been popularized by Microsoft Outhouse, > so I've taken to calling it "outhouse-quoting". "Outhouse", heh. I've seen it called "Microsoft Lookout" at times, although there's a search engine for MS Outlook called that. See: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/12/24.html > That's not fair, though, because I've seen it done in mutt and > other email clients. It's a combination of top-posting and a failure to > edit the quoted text. Yes, right. Someone I know (who is BCCed to this message and is deaf), who used to bottom-post complained, that when he uses his mobile phone to read E- mail, he needs to scroll past the quoted texts in bottom-posted E-mails and as a result now prefers top-posting E-mails. I think it's a UI problem of the mobile phone E-mail applications, which as noted in the book "The Design of Everyday Things" [DOET] are repeating the same usability mistakes that happened in previous generations of devices (e.g: Web-based user-interfaces, GUIs, terminal-based UIs, etc.). For example, even a premium WordPress.com account suffers from some usability problems (such as no way to allow for preview for comments) that are non-existent even in the gratis accounts of livejournal.com . Regards, Shlomi Fish [DOET] : http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/0385267746 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - http://shlom.in/enemy Logic sucks. Morality sucks. Reality sucks. Deal with it! Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list