Thomas Jefferson would love you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amanda Lee" <amanda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:50 PM Subject: Re: Unloading Linux > It's really a pain in the neck! to get messages with interspersed dialogue > especially when you've already read the originator's message two messages > ago so you have to listen to the whol thing again! and again! and again! and > then figure out who said what. Sighted persons can just use colors or > highlighting to set off the participants but we can't discern the difference > as easily. Unfortuneately too, I have my original message set to be posted > and forget to cut it out but it's after my comments so with a screen reader > and pine, you just press spacebar to go to next page and you don't have to > listen to the junk at the end. Yes it's sloppy but when I have a bunch of > mail to bullet through and sometimes I get over a hundred per day, laziness > sets in! big time ha! > > I personally prefer it that people post what they have to say at the > beginning of the message and if one wanted to leave in what was said > previously for contextual purposes, then the reader can elect to go down > farther into the message and re-read anything which needs clarification and > one doesn't have to go and hunt down the original message. > > Amanda Lee > > Alexandria, VA > > > Too bad! I'm cutting out what was said before! so go find it! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
