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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Email ettiquette (was RE: windows won't detect my ipod)Re: Email ettiquette (was RE: windows won't detect my ipod)
From: Tyler Wood <tcwood12_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:41:05 -0600 Nod, you've got a point there. I'm not used to posting after the previous message; so this is how I'll usually do it, unless other people prefer I do it another way. Have a good day - Tyler Wood --- Tyler Wood skype: the_conman283 msn/windows messinger: the_conman283_at_hotmail.com e-mail: tcwood12_at_shaw.ca best tv guide on the internet: http://www.zap2it.com best internet radio: http://www.bluebeat.com soon to have a live journal! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Ervin" <GlennErvin_at_cableone.net> To: "Rockbox" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 8:29 PM Subject: Re: Email ettiquette (was RE: windows won't detect my ipod) > > Actually, on a completely different topic and mostly from a social > commentary perspective, I've noticed this quite a bit in my transition > from engineering/tech focused fields to having more dealings with > management. I used to be a firmware engineer to a printer company, then > a consultant writing .NET, now I write Perl and PHP for an insurance > company. It seems like the further you get away from hackers and the > more you get towards non-computer folks (product managers, engineers > from other disciplines, my mother, etc.), the more people simply can't > handle inline comments and what we consider "proper" use of email. > Hence, they top-post, quote incorrectly, are imprecise in their use of > language and explanations, etc. The thing is, I can't figure out why - I > try and explain why these approaches are better, and they seem to make > an effort, and end up just getting more confused. It must be some > difference in the way they think vs. the way I think. > > Anyway, just a little social commentary. > > * I think the reason you are noticing this is that there are many more > Blind > users on the list than ever. > We Blind users usually prefer to have the reply at the top, as different > to > sighted folk, we have to read the message in its entirety, to get to the > reply, where sighted users can typically glance past the quoted text to > get > to the reply, unless it is not clear with a separator, or blank space. > But many of us are trying to oblige the sighted users on this list, since > this is not a "Blind topic" list. > But either we haven't been remembering to correctly edit, or some of us > don't yet have the editing skills. > Not an excuse, just my opinion here. > I think you would hate being on a "Blind topic" list. > Glenn > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > PGP Key: http://www.mattcaron.net/pgp_key.txt > ~~ Matt Caron ~~ > > >Received on 2007-03-03 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |