Hi All, On gmail threads text is automatically quoted: I have no option about that, other than selectively quoting parts. I always make an effort to write clearly, but more often than not, I am exhausted. I am making a huge effort to complete netman, notwithstanding I never earned a penny working as a programmer in my life.
Today has been a day of manual work, and I am here, struggling in vain to get dpkg-buildpackage do its job. However, I am stuck, and due to other work totally unrelated to computers and programming, I don't enjoy the full concentration that I would have had, had I been continually working on computers. I would want to finish netman, but that depends on others wanting to direct me. In this regard, it important to note, that like many people, I do not use a fixed style to communicate. Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't stick to it, as I am made in a way not to memorize such things. I don't rely on memory, and actually have to continually reason out things to do what I want to do. Sorry, but not every human mind functions in the same way. The mind, like anything, adapts to whatever abilities a person may have. If for instance, a person has a powerful memory, that person will certainly rely on memory, but if, like my case, a person cannot rely much on memory, that person has to rely on logic. Sorry, but my ability to concentrate, my energy and time are limited, and I have more pressing errands that I cannot ignore. Edward On 12/12/2015, Rainer Weikusat <rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > Jaromil <jaro...@dyne.org> writes: >> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Gregory Nowak wrote: >>> I have to throw in my $0.01 here. First, like Edward, I too prefer top >>> posting. I have noticed also that top posting seems to be an >>> overwhelming convention on blindness-related lists. I have seen >>> instances of bottom posters getting flamed on a blindness-related list >>> for doing so. >> >> this sounds strange. since its very inception we have struggled to keep >> Dyne.org infrastructure and practices as friendly as possible for people >> with low or even no vision, since some of our funding members had such >> conditions. In my experience bottom posting is fine, as screen readers >> should be recognizing and signaling the quote prefix '>' and offer to >> skip over it. > > 'Top posting' vs 'bottom posting' is a false dichotomy (could also be > regarded as strawman): It's really "unredacted full-quote with some text > attached", possibly even "unredacted full-quote of something completely > unrelated" vs "reply to the text you're replying to and keep enough of > the context that readers can understand what you are writing > about". There are also people who put their own text below an unredacted > full-quote but that's not really different from putting it at the top: > Both are examples of an "can't be bothered to express myself clearly" > mentality (Reader can figure that out! If not, screw him!). > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
