Please could you all Delete part of those LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOG letters

Sorry Mirjam Dennis

And I'd like to add to mirjam's request: could you please put your responses at the _top_ of your replies - I use a screen reader to read me what's in text on-screen, so listening to all those repeated messages... well, I end up simply deleting messages with the same subject line without having read most of them for this reason.

Thanks

David

Melinda you can leave parts to which you answer and delete the rest ,, it will make a HUUUUGE difference THANK YOU mirjam

David, top posting is considered poor netiquette, and will get you flamed in most USENET groups. Hope this explains better than I can.

If top-posting is considered poor netiquette, which I agree, it is, but it is helpful to someone using a text reader, then perhaps netiquette needs to be adjusted to meet the needs of differently abled readers.

nickie

DA wrote:

Oh gee I didn't know but will try to remember from now on!

Donna

David R. Sky wrote:

Good point Nickie......I sub to several groups and pretty much go with the flow....some don't care how you post, others are diehard bottom posters only. So I usually lurk for a while and see what the norm is for a new group. I noticed that most private news servers where the posters are afraid of Usenet Groups are top posters.

D> If top-posting is considered poor netiquette, which I agree, it is,

"DA"

"DA"

Try this site

I always do.

SOmetimes it is hard to remember which newsgroups want you to t> Melinda you can leave parts to which you answer

LOL I just post more to aggravate them, unless it's a group I care about ;-)

D> I don't mind pleasant requests for accommodation, but I do mind the

Mirjam--- You said just what I was thinking! Since I sprained my wrist a few weeks ago, it hurts to use the mouse, and as I was complaining to myself about how the replies were posted, I came upon your request. Thank you!!!

Merri (a sometime lurker, reader and occasional poster)

QUICK HEALINNG MERRI i have another problem that hurts , thus i am kin to have less scrollling

Funny how many posts this thread generated!!

If you were to join a blindness-related list and posted your response _after_ someone else's message, you'd _very_ quickly get flamed by irate screen reader users!!!!

And thanks for the link - when I want to respond to several points in an email or post, I do interweave but start each person's text with their name and my name and response:

Person: [quoted text]

David: [response]

and so on... This keeps text very clear as to who wrote what, especially since it can get annoying hearing all those > signes repeatedly spoken as "greater" or "greater greater greater...". *chuckle*

David

Hi David,

I was intrigued by this and asked friends on another newsgroup. The best reason they came up with for the convention of bottom-posting was the unreliability of usenet in terms of message propogation. It is common to receive messages out of order, for instance, and then if the message is top-posted and the message to which it is replying is not there the person reading it has no context and it becomes meaningless.

There is no corresponding argument where mailing lists are concerned I guess as they are more consistent (perhaps with the exception of yahoo which can be a bit sporadic) and good at delivering messages in the correct order.

nickie

David R. Sky wrote:

Nickie I find it very annoying to scrolllllllllll f=down i read what i want at the top if i need any clatification i can always go back mirjam