[liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

[michael gurstein]

Ahh, the big enders vs. little enders discussion Pt. 212c

IMHE, bottom posting is a techie thing for folks used to scrolling through
long back and forths with siginficant details being added in a successive
fashion...

Top posting is a non-techie thing for folks who are looking to bring
substantive content to a discussion where folks may (or may not) wish to
search further to see what else has been said on the subject.

(this list an interesting agglomeration of both...

M

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[mailto:liberationtech-bounces at lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph
Lorenzo Hall
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 8:49 AM
To: liberationtech
Subject: Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION



On 4/3/13 10:37 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 10:33:17AM -0400, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote:
> 
>>> Top-posting is definitely worse. Don't do it.  >
> 
>> A very minor point that isn't especially relevant to libtech, I 
>> suspect: I work with a number of blind advocates and top-posting 
>> makes their lives much, much easier (since "scrolling" for them can 
>> be quite difficult). So, this is
> 
> How do they deal with context? Do they use threading MUAs?
> What kind of infrastructure they use? Way back it was a braille line 
> and emacs, but I presume that's no longer true.

I can ask, if you'd like. I think it's pretty standard for blind users to
use screenreaders like JAWS, and I know they can get frustrated by long
indented stuff quoted before the "meat" of a post. But they're frustrated by
so much of the abled world. ::)

I just wanted to raise this so that if you send to a list/group that is more
likely to have visually-impaired users, you might crop the quoted stuff and
respond above... but it's mostly a kindness than a necessity.

best, Joe

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