The usual reply to people who prefer top-posting goes something along the lines of:
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Top-posting is preferable in some circumstances (mobile devices, screen readers, etc), but authors generally use one or the other and choose based on their preferences. It's difficult to enforce a particular style list-wide (although some lists/fora have attempted it). On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Roger Loran Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, let me make a suggestion, and if this is a suggestion from a > minority of one and it would inconvenience everyone else then just > ignore me. One of the main reasons I am interested in Open Library is > that I am blind and Open Library provides a valuable service to us blind > people with its accessible books. The email list tends to be accessible > too, but not at the height of accessibility. I use a screen reader to > read these emails. When I am reading a reply to an email it is better if > the reply is found at the top of the screen. For the most part it is not > necessary to read the quoted material, but if it is then if that quoted > material is located after the reply I can arrow down to make sense of > the reply. However, when the quoted material comes first I have to > either arrow down looking for the reply or jump straight to the bottom > and arrow up looking for the beginning of the reply. When there is a > thread with a good many replies piled on this can be a real hunting > trip. I do not know quite how an email looks to a sighted person because > I became blind twenty-four years ago before I had ever seen an email, > but since I was once sighted it seems to me that it would be a bit more > convenient for a sighted person to see the reply at the top of the > message too, but I really do not know that. I have seen on most email > lists that most people do have their email configured to place the reply > at the top of the message, so I get the impression that most sighted > people prefer it that way. Anyway, I just wanted to suggest that it > might be better if everyone had their email configured to place replies > at the top of a message if that is not too inconvenient for the rest of > you. I am mostly a lurker, though, and I realize that my personal > convenience is not a top priority. By the way, for what it's worth, I > don't think items that are not books belong in Open Library either. [text from previous unrelated thread trimmed] Tom _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
