Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 20:20:04 -0500 (EST) From: "Paul O. Bartlett" To: OpenDOS List cc: jims AT eos DOT arc DOT nasa DOT gov Subject: Re: difficulty reading quotes with speech In-Reply-To: <200011011837.eA1IbIt23614@eos.arc.nasa.gov> Message-ID: X-PGP-keyid: 0xF383C8F9 X-PGP-fingerprint: E62D2E2C7BCD08CB B742A93726A91532 Organization: SmartNet Private Account MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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 [remainder omitted for brevity] -- Paul mailto:bartlett AT smart DOT net .......................................................... Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA Keyserver (0xF383C8F9) or WWW for PGP public key Home Page: http://www.smart.net/~bartlett