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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Jun 5, 2006 5:40AM

A recent thread on the italian "webaccessibile" mailing list has been discussing the issue of quoting in email replies.
<http://itlists.org/pipermail/webaccessibile/2006-June/037240.html>;

Although most other lists use the standard inline/interleaved replies <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Inline_replies>;, this list uses a different format proposed by Roberto Scano (in this article, also in italian <http://www.webaccessibile.org/argomenti/documento.asp?DocID=222>;) which essentially removes the ">" signs and prefixes each quoted fragment with the name of the original author, followed by your own name and your specific reply...

Apparently, this makes quoting easier and more readable, but recently there have been a few dissenting voices (including mine) on the list. Any thoughts? Does the standard inline quoting cause any issues to users of AT, or those with cognitive disabilities?

Patrick
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