Those who are blind can configure their screen reader not to speak 
them.  As for sighted folks, some don't like them, and some do 
because they can tell which part of the message is original, and 
which part was forwarded.

Andy
At 06:15 PM 3/21/2009, you wrote:
>     Harvey:
>
>I thought of that, but still get complaints about the greater-thans from
>sighted folks I forward e-mails to, so I'm just trying to solve two problems
>at once, I guess.
>
>73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 1:49 PM
>Subject: Re: getting rid of greater-than signs in Outlook Express forwards
>
>
>Tom, Jaws won't read as many of them if you set your punctuation setting for
>some or none rather than all.
>Harvey