Thread Subject: Re: Please do not top post

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From: Barrett, Don
Date: Wed, Oct 18 2006 8:20 PM

"" The preferred technique is to just
" quote the sentiment you are responding to, or to delete the previous
" message and ensure your response provides sufficient context
"to stand on
" its own."
"
"And Jared responded:
"
""Yep, something like this - only the relevant portions are
"quoted, with the quoted portion above my response."
"
"I asked Curtis about the screen reader usability of the
"greater than symbols (>) at the beginning of each line. He
"recommended that we use double quotes (") instead to enclose
"the portion of a posting to which we are responding.

Well, it must be a sighted thing to hate top posting. As a screen
reader user, I love top posting as you are right there with what the
other person is saying easily accessible at the top of the heap. This
method, I call composting, as one has to listen to all the **** before
finding out what the replier is saying. Oh well, I will abide by the
wishes of the majority; no sweat. Did I do this right; I used Gregg's
great tip and told Outlook to use quotes before each line. A new
experience for an old dog.

Don

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