- From: John Foliot - WATS.ca <foliot@wats.ca>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 19:42:20 -0400
- To: "Joe Clark" <joeclark@joeclark.org>, "WAI-IG" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Joe, Do you have nothing better to contribute to this list than to scavenge emails that are over two weeks old and criticize them? Get a life. JF (BTW, if you plan on quoting a URL, get it right... the link you provided goes nowhere...) > -----Original Message----- > From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On > Behalf Of Joe Clark > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 7:35 PM > To: WAI-IG > Subject: Mail formats > > > > Charles McCathieNevile wrote > <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2003AprJun/0982..html>: > > >Tina: I apologise for putting my responses first, but often people > >have read/heard the thread. > > Then delete it. > > >In accessibility efficiency is incredibly important, and I haven't > >met a mail client that allows you to skip to the interesting bits. > > Eudora's speech settings can be configured not to read quoted text, > among many other features. > > > So for now I will continue to leave the original context until > >after my message, > > Top posting is harmful, unnecessary, and difficult to defend except > in highly unusual cases. There's *nothing* beneficial about it. > Generally, the people who cling to it are lazy. We already read the > damned message you're quoting. > > >On lists where the majority of people are using assistive > >technologies people complain if you put old stuff first - it takes > >too much time to find the interesting stuff. > > There is no proof that a "majority" of people are using such > technologies. Anyway, they need better assistive technologies, or > they can use real mail programs that can handle quoted text properly. > > Or, if you're so concerned with gobs of previously-quoted text, why > are you sending 100% of previous messages every time? Just delete it > and type your message. > > See, inter alia: > > <http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TrimYourPosts>: Trim Your Posts > <http://www.xerez.demon.co.uk/usenet.htm>: Usenet Newsgroups > <http://www.redballoon.net/~snorwood/quote-rant.shtml>: Annoying > quoting practices rant > <http://www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/netiquett.html#TRIM>: Email > Netiquette Guidance > <http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?How_to_post>: All My FAQs Wiki: > How to post > <http://www.amk.ca/conceit/mailing-list.html>: A Look at a Mailing List > <http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html>: Bottom vs. top > posting and quotation style on Usenet > <http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>: Why is Bottom-posting > better than Top-posting > <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.mccaughan/g/remarks/uquote.html>: The > advantages of Usenet's quoting conventions > > -- > > Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org > Accessibility <http://joeclark.org/access/> > Author, _Building Accessible Websites_ > <http://joeclark.org/book/> > > > >
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