Michael Schwendt staggered into view and mumbled: > Is this based on experience or do you guess? It is my experience > that visually impaired people appreciate when all irrelevant text is > edited out and quotes are stripped down to the minimum that is > necessary to keep context.
It is actually from experience, as I once saw a message on another list from a visually impaired person whose signature mentioned something like: If you need to quot my original message, please do so at the bottom of your reply, as I am using speech and it is difficult to get past original messages at the top of replies. > A quoted complete message at the top with a reply below that is > nearly as bad as a top-posting. Actually, I don't see how it could be possible that quoted complete messages at the top could be "nearly" as bad astop-posting. Both are equally bad for using a lot of bandwidth, but I have given up on messages before that might have been important because I saw that it was a reply and said ----- Original message ----- (bla bla bla( at the top of the message and the window was full of nothing but quoting the previous 2 messages. In short, I didn't think the answer was worth all that hassle. And I do conceed that snipping (AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE) is MUCH better than even one complete -----Original message ----- >From so-and-so Sent Pungenday, the 52nd say of Confusion in the YOLD 3169 etc. ;D This is why I snip or don't even include the previous message and try to make the context clear enough on my own. And sorry about the long lines. I am using Nano with Mutt and I have my screen resolution set to 1024x768. It is wrapping at a longer line I think because of that. If anyone has any way of fixing this I would be very happy, as I can't seem to find it in the editor. Apparently, it just wraps according to the screen size. I have tried to fix it manually. Hope this helps. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- We use Linux for all our mission-critical applications. Having the source code means that we are not held hostage by anyone's support department. (Russell Nelson, President of Crynwr Software) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
