Message-Id: <199711132336.SAA27868@kanga.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:36:42 -0500 (EST)
From: jls11 AT po DOT cwru DOT edu (John L. Spetz)
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: way too much quoting
Cc: jls11 AT po DOT cwru DOT edu
Reply-To: jls11 AT po DOT cwru DOT edu (John L. Spetz)
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Reply to message from jims AT eos DOT arc DOT nasa DOT gov of Wed, 12 Nov
>They start with more than one level of nested quoting, and end with a few
>comments last. If the comments had been placed first, they would have been
>perfectly understandable on their own, and I could have dumped my speech buffer
>when the quotes which should have been at the end started.

It is, however, more natural to establish the context then comment on it.
I take it the problem is that a speech synthesizer makes the quoted
material more of a nuisance than it is worth.  A better solution would
be to write software which recognizes lines flagged with '>' or the 
like as quoted material.  This should not be impossible if the e-mail
program is stand-alone anyway.  The software could then move, abbreviate,
or skip quoted material as desired.  This would be far more flexible than
trying to convince the Net community to alter existing practice.