Re: Where does the Republican Party stand onthe 1stAmendment?

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Toralv_Dirro () mcafee com to "der Mouse" to Toralv:

> > > [A friend is] blind and is saying nothing <insert stronger 
> > expression 
> > > for annoys him more> than having to search for inserted comments in 
> > > the middle of an email that is part of a thread he's 
> > allready familar 
> > > with.
> >
> > This is a good reason to use standard quoting: it makes it 
> > possible for software to strip out quoted material for him.
>
> And that leaves him with short sentences completely out of context.

...all run together just as they would be if top-posted!

So, no different to a "smart" screen-reader whether top-posted or 
"interleaved" with proper quoting.

In short, if you're blind you're fucked when it comes to making sense of 
Email or news, either because moron posters will NOT provide contextual 
information (thereby _ALSO_ annoying the crap out out of folk that read 
tons and tons of such Email, news, etc every day) or because they will 
but your screen reader will "hide" it from you.

Your friend is full of shit.

OK -- he has a point _IF_ he uses a dumb screen reader, but that's hardly 
_our_ problem, is it?

I guess "really smart" screen readers would read (or at least offer the 
option of doing so) quoted text in Emails, news posts, etc in a different 
voice, rather than just ignoring them...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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