Date:	Wed, 1 Nov 2000 20:20:04 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Paul O. Bartlett" <bartlett AT smart DOT net>
To:	OpenDOS List <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
cc:	jims AT eos DOT arc DOT nasa DOT gov
Subject:	Re: difficulty reading quotes with speech
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    I can appreciate your problem and the fact that there is a conflict
involved.  As a sighted person, I myself find it much preferable to
have response lines interspersed among the quoted original lines to
which response is being made.  To me this provides much better context. 
However, I do agree that often far too much is quoted.  I try not to
quote any more than I think is necessary to make my reply intelligible,
but I suppose that there will always be differences of opinion as to
how much is enough.  Unfortunately, I do not have a good way of
resolving the different legitimate needs of different user.

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Jim Stevenson wrote:

> I appreciate your posts, and find them valuable.
> 
> This suggestion refers only to single topic replies.
> 
> Those of us who read e-mail with speech want to get to the new information,
> with as little time as possible

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