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Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop

From "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.sinclair
Subject Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop
Date 2015-09-08 16:34 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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"Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:msm66e$7h8$1@dont-email.me...

> Its easier for me if people  top post in here due to the serial nature 
> of reading with screenreaders.

OK

If replying to a long post do you still put all of your comments at the 
top? Or if you do intersperse your comments where they apply do you also 
put those ones above the piece of text you are replying to?

> I think it is highly irritating to have to wade through loads of 
> quoted text merely, in some cases to find the poster has said about 
> three words as a reply.

Agreed. That is *one* of the irritations about the way people misuse 
Usenet. Nothing personal but guess what another one is...!


> Short of  using quotfix, which mucks up accessibility the  client I 
> use only posts this way.

OK

> In most cases people these days group threads by conversation and as 
> the sub line is visible one can hardly need to quote at all unless you 
> are such an infrequent user you get the  messages before expired when 
> you download them.

OK

> Anyway, we have been here before and its not going to change, so...

I though that might be the case. AFAICS people who place three words at 
the end of a long quote will carry on doing what they do too. :-(

James

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No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 11:19 +0100
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop deKay <nospam.andyk@lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk> - 2015-09-06 18:00 +0000
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2015-09-07 07:58 +0100
    Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 18:37 +0100
      Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2015-09-08 07:19 +0100
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "dott.Piergiorgio" <dott.piergiorgio@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 07:20 +0200
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-07 08:33 +0100
    Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 18:44 +0100
      Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-08 09:29 +0100
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 16:34 +0100
          Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-09 11:54 +0100
            Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 15:55 +0100
              Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2015-09-13 17:46 +0100
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "dott.Piergiorgio" <dott.piergiorgio@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 07:38 +0200
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2015-09-09 07:40 +0100
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-10 09:23 +0100
    Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 16:16 +0100
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop Marcos Cruz <null_email_so_use_my_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2015-09-19 19:41 +0000

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