[gui-talk] Newsline newspapers by e-mail

Wed Aug 2 20:16:02 CDT 2006

Not all papers offer their news for free or if the do the on line content is 
abbreviated.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinhard Stebner" <reinhard.stebner at gmail.com>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Newsline newspapers by e-mail

|I like the fact ahtt the news paper will come to my e-mail when it comes 
out
| (and it wil be of easer).
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
| Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
| Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 11:10 PM
| To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
| Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Newsline newspapers by e-mail
|
| I think I've asked this before, but the topic has come up again and I'm
| still puzzled about something.  What is this service about, this 
newspapers
| by email thing?  What are the things that attract some people to it?  If
| they're computer users with screen readers and know how to navigate the 
Web,
|
| which I think describes all of us, why can't they just do as I do, and go 
to
|
| the web sites of their favorite newspapers and read the news?  I'm not 
being
|
| sarcastic.  I just don't get what this is about.  Were it not for Jaws, 
I'd
| be desperate for some way to hear readings of the newspapers that used to 
be
|
| dropped on my doormat each morning of the week.  It's not as if I don't 
also
|
| have the radio (NPR's two daily news cycles, in my case) but written
| articles are a very different animal, and NPR, whatever its admirable
| qualities, can't replace for me the satisfaction of reading something
| written, not "presented," as they say in the media world.  And I don't 
have
| to put up with hearing "jump start" conflated with "kick start," or
| everybody saying that these are conditions on the ground, at the end of 
the
| day, that this or that is the suddenly all-purpose "robust," and a million
| other such annoyances.
|
| But the fact is that I do have Jaws, and so I brew my first mug of morning
| coffee and put it beside the computer rather than on the kitchen table, as
| before when I used to open up the Los Angeles times or New York Times 
there
| and read with coffee and breakfast, except now I'm sipping my coffee while
| Jaws reads me the articles whose headlines I click on from each section's
| index page.  This doesn't seem a burden at all.  Again, I'm not trying to 
be
|
| cute, but will someone please explain what the deal is with this newsline 
by
|
| email thing?
|
| thanks very much.
|
| ----- Original Message ----- 
| From: "Anthony Vece" <ajvece at verizon.net>
| To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
| Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 8:40 PM
| Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Newsline newspapers by e-mail
|
|
| I sent an email to my state sponsor and he said we need to cal the main
| number in Baltimore.
|
| Anthony
|
|
| ----- Original Message ----- 
| From: "albert griffith" <albertpgriffith at hotmail.com>
| To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
| Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 10:01 PM
| Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Newsline newspapers by e-mail
|
|
| > Where can these newspapers on line be gotten from?
| > ----- Original Message ----- 
| > From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
| > To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
| > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 1:02 AM
| > Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Newsline newspapers by e-mail
| >
| >
| >> Deane:  I don't think all the players RFB&D sells will handle the
| >> newspaper files.  They are text only files I believe so while the Book
| >> Port etc., will play them, the Vibe, Wave, Scholar etc. won't.
| >>
| >> Dave
| >>
| >> At 07:38 PM 7/20/2006, you wrote:
| >>>Hi, Denise.  the newspapers are in Daisy format.  By definition, this
| >>>is not a mainstream format, so no off-the-shelf mp3 players will
| >>>handle it.  The Book Port will definitely play them, and I believe
| >>>the book Courier also handles daisy files.  If you go to www.rfbd.org
| >>>and look at the players they sell, they should all handle these
| >>>files.  Ideally, you would find a player that can handle compact
| >>>flash cards and transfer the papers to those cards.  Other more
| >>>expensive options include Braille Note mPower and Pac Mate with the
| >>>fs Daisy reader add-on.
| >>>
| >>>Dean
| >>>
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