Unloading Linux

Angelo Sonnesso asonnesso at coastalnet.com
Thu Jan 31 13:43:22 EST 2002


Thomas Jefferson would love you.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Amanda Lee" <amanda at shellworld.net>
To: <speakup at 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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