Re: Column titles/text with SQL WorkBench

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:29 AM, CRPence <crpbottle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   FWiW:
>
>   I believe the common vernacular would be bottom-post; i.e. to include
> the quoted text at the top, and then compose the reply after.  Regardless...
>
>   And while there seems to be no apparent /expected/ posting protocol on
> the lists, please do note that by including the quote at the top and
> composing the reply on the bottom, there is benefit for the midrange
> archives.  That benefit is visible in the hover-over text.  That text seems
> consistently functional, i.e. giving worthwhile effect, only when following
> the /compose reply at the bottom/ means of composing a message.  Thus
> arguably, the convention of posting reply-text at the bottom could be
> considered a courtesy to anyone utilizing the archives,
>
>   For example, of your two consecutive posts seen listed in this thread as
> seen here [
> http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201510/threads.html#00823] [note:
> the effects of the position-to on the message number, seen on the end of
> the URL, will become effective only if\when there are sufficient posts in
> this month and appearing threaded _under_ those two messages].  The first
> of those messages was composed using top-posting [quoted text follows the
> composed reply-text] versus the second which was composed using
> bottom-posting [quoted text precedes the composed reply-text].  As a result:
>
>    The context revealed using hover-over with the first is some seemingly
> random amalgam of two single-line snippets from some prior replies,
> followed by a bunch of the automatically appended text by the midrange
> email listing software about unsubscribing [<sarcasm> So very useful
> </sarcasm>], but most definitely *not* any text provided in your reply.
> The only way a person perusing the list of messages can see what was your
> reply, is by visiting the link; i.e. the hover-over is quite useless,
> because none of your reply is visible.
>
>    Contrast that with...
>
>    The context revealed using hover-over with the second is most
> definitely all of the text provided in your reply; including, and IMO
> somewhat surprisingly, even the one line of text that was composed on the
> top, *and* followed by *all of the text* composed on the bottom. Anyone
> perusing the list of messages can see what was your reply, directly from
> the hover-over, because *all of your reply is visible* there, without ever
> having opened the link.
>
> --
> Regards, Chuck
​Chuck,

That's truly interesting info....too bad it doesn't appear that google
offers a way to default to bottom post.

Charles ​

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