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From: "Angelo Sonnesso" <asonnesso@coastalnet.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Unloading Linux
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:43:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00e201c1aa8e$8bcc8940$6a78f5cd@angeloso> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00d101c1aa02$1caad9e0$0100a8c0@mshome.net>

Thomas Jefferson would love you.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Amanda Lee" <amanda@shellworld.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: Unloading Linux


> It's really a pain in the neck! to get messages with interspersed dialogue
> especially when you've already read the originator's message two messages
> ago so you have to listen to the whol thing again! and again! and again!
and
> then figure out who said what.  Sighted persons can just use colors or
> highlighting to set off the participants but we can't discern the
difference
> as easily.  Unfortuneately too, I have my original message set to be
posted
> and forget to cut it out but it's after my comments so with a screen
reader
> and pine, you just press spacebar to go to next page and you don't have to
> listen to the junk at the end.  Yes it's sloppy but when I have a bunch of
> mail to bullet through and sometimes I get over a hundred per day,
laziness
> sets in! big time ha!
>
> I personally prefer it that people post what they have to say at the
> beginning of the message and if one wanted to leave in what was said
> previously for contextual purposes, then the reader can elect to go down
> farther into the message and re-read anything which needs clarification
and
> one doesn't have to go and hunt down the original message.
>
> Amanda Lee
>
> Alexandria, VA
>
>
> Too bad! I'm cutting out what was said before! so go find it!
>
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Rodney
 ` Saqib Shaikh
 ` Kirk Wood
   ` Rodney
 ` Terry Cudney
 ` Thomas Ward
 ` Mitchell
   ` Rodney
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Chris Peterson
     ` Mitchell
       ` Geoff Shang
         ` Gregory Nowak
         ` Thomas Ward
         ` Shaun Oliver
     ` Kirk Reiser
       ` Chris Peterson
         ` HTML email (was Unloading Linux) Kirk Wood
       ` Unloading Linux Amanda Lee
         ` Angelo Sonnesso [this message]
           ` Janina Sajka
 ` Pete
   ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Pete
   ` Kirk Wood
   ` Thomas Ward
     ` Pete

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