James G. Sack (jim) said:
> BTY, it is interesting to observe that business email etiquette and
> expectations are somewhat the opposite from the list culture. In my
> experience, business correspondents expect the top of the email to
> have
> the immediately important content. Furthermore, they often will
> never(!)
> look at _any_ of the quoted tail, but if they do, they will expect it
> to
> contain the entire thread history!
That matches what I observe. Of course I promptly remove all the tail
and leave only to the part of the message I'm responding to.
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