Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-07 Thread Steve Holmes
At least here on this list people "Top post" or "Bottom quote" which is easier to deal with when you use something like Apple Mail and VoiceOver and let VoiceOver auto read the message to you. But I think it a good idea to clear out the more past parts of message quotes and just keep the most r

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-02 Thread Richard Ring
However, my question is this. How many blind Mac users are able to use the Mac in there workplaces? And, how many employees of state agencies can teach the Mac? If Office were accessibil, many more blind individuals would be in a position to insist that their Rehab specialists teach them the Mac

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-02 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Ricardo, I agree. Hence I said I accept that you prefer things differently. I originally thought that quoting the original messages was just something people did out of habit, not intentionally because you actually needed the original message there for some reason. I still think it's unneces

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, How about when when some one reads a message but, they don't know who the person was actually replying to? For example, your post that I'm replying to now. I don't know if your response was triggered by my response or Karens. But either which way, I think its asking a bit much for hundre

Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Karen, In situations such as that you mentioned, where the post is something as simple as "no", I'd either • Discover the question from the subject title of the thread. Where the question was simple enough to get such a simple answer, the subject line usually says it all.

Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
OKay, I accept there are different views on this and I'm not going to get my way. But I can't help continuing the discussion now it's started. I already have a separate mailbox just for this list and server side rules/filters that all messages go straight to this mailbox. Even so, without diges

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, My thought exactly. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 1, 2013, at 5:56 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > While I respect your frustration, will not that make following the context of > a discussion more of a challenge? > say if s

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Karen Lewellen
While I respect your frustration, will not that make following the context of a discussion more of a challenge? say if someone has asked a question, and the respond is simply no, that will not work? How will someone, say researching the issue later, gather the information they seek, without read

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
ing them, but by the subject decide whether to delete them or keep them >>> for reading. >>> >>> It works, and good luck getting people to comply with your request, in my >>> experience, it ain't going to happen. Better to have separate folders for >>> li

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Kawal Gucukoglu" To: Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 10:41 AM Subject: Re: Polite Request for All List Members Hello. I'm afraid, I need original messages to know what has been discussed as I read mail as it comes in if the topic is interesting. As I travel about, meaning that I'm

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hi, one good suggestion is for people to either paraphrase, or if they do leave the prior quoted message, they can erase everything afterward. However if people delete everything, and then they don't paraphrase, it creates confusion anyway. Cheers. -- Raul A. Gallegos - Moderator "I told my p

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Donna Goodin
ck getting people to comply with your request, in my >> experience, it ain't going to happen. Better to have separate folders for >> list messages in my opinion. >> >> - Original Message - From: "Nicholas Parsons" >> >> To: >>

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
ve separate folders for >> list messages in my opinion. >> >> - Original Message - From: "Nicholas Parsons" >> >> To: >> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 1:38 AM >> Subject: Polite Request for All List Members >> >> >>

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Alex Hall
Nicholas Parsons" > > To: > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 1:38 AM > Subject: Polite Request for All List Members > > > Dear list, > > Could people please try and ensure they are not quoting conversation history > or previous posts in their posts. > &

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Phil Halton
From: "Nicholas Parsons" To: Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 1:38 AM Subject: Polite Request for All List Members Dear list, Could people please try and ensure they are not quoting conversation history or previous posts in their posts. I receive the threads in digest mode

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
2013 1:38 AM Subject: Polite Request for All List Members Dear list, Could people please try and ensure they are not quoting conversation history or previous posts in their posts. I receive the threads in digest mode, and Mail therefore doesn't block out the quoted conversation history. It

Polite Request for All List Members

2013-01-31 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Dear list, Could people please try and ensure they are not quoting conversation history or previous posts in their posts. I receive the threads in digest mode, and Mail therefore doesn't block out the quoted conversation history. It makes it really difficult when I have to read through the who