On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 12:51 -0500, Rob wrote: > >One thing I hate -- and it is Outlook driven -- is an email that > >quotes every word of every previous email in the thread, including > >every signature and every list tag below each signature. The hyphens, > >with every standards compliant mailer, provide, at minimum automated > >trimming of that redundant info. > > Interesting, I couldn't disagree with you more. Perhaps our industries > differ, but in my company's industry (Architectural and Engineering > Services) it is sometimes very important from both an administrative > and legal standpoint to be able to document an entire conversation. > Being able to prove that Bob the Client told Dave the Engineer to > modify the spec for Project Y to include items A, B, and C on [date] at > [time] as well as showing the conversational context that led to and > followed that communication is vital to us.
This is exactly the point I made earlier about quoting style. You know best what works in your business environment, but on mailing lists such as this one the style you describe is anathema. Furthermore, I don't understand what you mean by "Being able to prove that Bob the Client told ...". The only way you could carry out an audit of a conversation is by copying the entire thread, *including all the headers* (and in fact signing each message cryptographically on the way), but in fact all you're doing is copying the message body. As a matter of convenience I can (just) understand it, though assumes your mailer doesn't do any reasonable version of threading, but as a matter of "proof", it's completely meaningless. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
