In message , J G Miller
writes:
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:47:41 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

I am interested to know under what circumstances snipping is totally
not practical, rather than just requiring a little more effort.

The circumstances I was envisaging was for those who lacked the physical
abilities and perhaps enabling software which would allow them to do this
in a quick and easy manner compared to a fully abled user.

A computer user with eg no hands and merely voice recognition software would
I think find it perhaps too time consuming and frustrating to give speech
commands to edit a long message rather than just posting a summary without
quoting the previous article.

.. You make very good points there. I think under the circumstances you
describe, most things are permissible. Though, in my limited experience
of dealing with people with difficulties (mainly interacting with the
blind, but I did work with a chair-bound gentleman who had extremely
limited movement and even speech), such people do make attempts - often
more than the rest of us! - to fit in with the rest of us and how we do
things.
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

Sarcasm: Barbed ire