[HPFGU-Feedback] Re: An Elfly Reminder

[Jordan Abel]

Alla:
> Just for everybody else to be aware of - there is not *one* blind
> list member who uses a screen reader. Of the top of my head I know
> of probably nine or ten blind list members who **post** and use
> screen readers.

I meant "here" as in Feedback, which I supposed was significantly
smaller than the main list or any of the other lists, and that if
there was anyone else they would have said something. I didn't mean to
offend anyone regardless

SSSusan/Shorty:
> Not every e-mail client puts in the chevrons [the >>> symbols].

That doesn't really change the part of my message that you quoted.
Putting in the > symbols and putting the attribution lines the normal
way isn't really harder than putting them in and putting them in the
way people here normally do. (however, can you name an actual email
client that doesn't put them? clients that make a fancy vertical bar
are really putting > marks in disguise, it's called format=flowed)

> SSSusan/Shorty:
> Additionally, for those who combine responses within a thread (something we
> encourage), the number of chevrons idea does not work.  Here's an example.

Yes it does. What i'm saying is that then and ONLY then, another
attribution line indicating that the poster that goes with those
number of chevrons has changed is necessary.

(out of curiosity, why do you encourage this? It breaks threading, and
it's not clear what it saves. But that's an issue for another day)

A typical response of this type would read

Bob wrote:
> Alice wrote:
> > [A's text]

[Response by me to A]

> [B's text]

[Response by me to B]

Dave wrote:
> Carol wrote:
> > [C's text]
>
> [D's text]

[my response to these points]

-- 
Random832

I don't see what's not clear about it, and it has the advantage that
it's done automatically (except for the combining itself) by the
_vast_ majority of email clients. And all you have to do if you want
to compose in notepad is hit "reply" first and copy the skeleton reply
message into notepad, rather than copying the original message. I
sometimes use gvim myself.

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Random832