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Re: OT: posting/emailing style

From "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk>
Newsgroups uk.tech.broadcast
Subject Re: OT: posting/emailing style
Date 2021-04-29 15:58 +0100
Organization 255 software
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 at 10:29:24, Liz Tuddenham 
<liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote (my responses usually follow 
points raised):
>J. P. Gilliver (John) <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 20:06:56, Liz Tuddenham
>> <liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote (my responses usually follow
>> points raised):
>> >J. P. Gilliver (John) <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I like to _think_ that software that put the cursor at the top did it to
>> >> encourage snipping-and-inline-posting. Unfortunately, this happened
>> >> about the time usage (of news and email) was spreading sufficiently fast
>> >> (1980s perhaps?) that people took to it without being shown by others
>> >> what was good practice, so never learnt about snipping-and-inline - they
>> >> just assumed, since the cursor was placed at the top by the software,
>> >> that their entire reply should go there.
>> >
>> >At the risk of starting an entirely new thread, am I the only one who
>> >puts the 'bottom line' totals at the *top* of spreadsheets, so the
>> >summary can be read at a glance along one line?
>> >
>> >
>> [Provocatively] Yes (-:
>
>[Sadly]  Well I thought it was a good idea.
>
>
As I said, I was being provocative - as well as, I don't think I _have_ 
seen anyone else do it. (I have seen people - like the ONS for RPI/CPI 
etc. - do a summary front _sheet_.)

I actually agree: it _is_ a good idea. (Well, I'd prefer a way of coding 
a spreadsheet that is more than a window high so that it opens with the 
bottom displayed, but failing that, I do like your idea.) Though - as 
it's basically bringing top-posting to spreadsheets - I'd want plenty of 
text pointing out to the reader that that was what's going on.

Do you _also_ put the totals in their usual place at the bottom?
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

More people watch live theatre every year than Premier League football
matches. - Libby Purves, RT 2017/9/30-10/6

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                Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-04-27 09:15 -0700
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                Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-04-28 08:20 -0700
                Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-04-28 10:37 -0600
                Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text Laurence Taylor <laurence@nospam.plus.com> - 2021-04-28 21:40 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text MB <MB@nospam.net> - 2021-04-28 22:01 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2021-04-29 09:19 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text Miguel Tomar Nogueira <mnogueira@mail.telepac.pt> - 2021-04-28 02:29 +0000
                OT: posting/emailing style (was: Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text) "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2021-04-28 16:14 +0100
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style (was: Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text) Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-04-28 08:42 -0700
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style (was: Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text) "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2021-04-28 17:42 +0100
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style (was: Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text) Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-04-28 10:07 -0700
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style (was: Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text) "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2021-04-28 18:37 +0100
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style (was: Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text) Roderick Stewart <rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> - 2021-04-29 09:06 +0100
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style (was: Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text) Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-04-28 10:45 -0600
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style (was: Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text) "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2021-04-28 17:50 +0100
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style (was: Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text) Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-04-28 10:57 -0600
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style (was: Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text) "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2021-04-28 18:10 +0100
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style (was: Re: Thunderbird - disabling display of quoted text) Roderick Stewart <rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> - 2021-04-29 09:31 +0100
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2021-04-28 20:06 +0100
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2021-04-28 20:24 +0100
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2021-04-29 10:29 +0100
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style "NY" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2021-04-29 10:35 +0100
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> - 2021-04-29 11:05 +0100
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2021-04-29 15:58 +0100
                Re: OT: posting/emailing style liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2021-04-29 19:04 +0100
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