Hi all! On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:43:40AM -0500, Derek D. Martin wrote:
> This is irrelevant. Over-quoting is inconsiderate, and affects > everyone. It causes us to have to wade through a bunch of irrelevant > garbage to get at (and often FIND) the author's point. Quoting out of > context (i.e. writing your reply and then quoting the whole message > after what you've written ) is also a problem, because it removes the > context of the comment, increases ambiguity, and thereby makes it > harder to get the author's point, and increases the likelihood that it > will be misunderstood by a wide audience. > > Limiting what you quote to the point that you're trying to comment on, > and commenting on it immediately afterward maximizes clarity, and > helps to reduce ambiguity by making it very clear what the author was > intending to comment ABOUT. I agree 100%!!! To quote mails in the right way is helpful for anyboody and not only for blind or visually handicapped persons. I'm a blind computeruser and I get mor then 1000 mails the day and its really not funny to grub thru this messages, if they are quoted badly. I don't need any special netiquette for blind or something like that, my screenreader is good enough to handle most things quite well. But it annoyes me if unnecesary techniques were used, to get very simple things working. For example javaskript or flash are often difficult to handle for blind linuxusers, but many persons using this crap to setup a simple website. It takes a lot of my time to handle things like this or reading bad quoted mails. Just my 0.2$ to this monsterthread ;-). Best regards, Schoepp -- Christian Schoepplein | http://www.lily-rockt.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lavish.de
