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 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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 -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Senior Staff Technologist Center for Democracy & Technology 1634 I ST NW STE 1100 Washington DC 20006-4011 (p) 202-407-8825 (f) 202-637-0968 [email protected] PGP: https://josephhall.org/gpg-key -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
