I agree with David’s disagreement. And, obviously, with Wayne’s remarks about changing subject lines.
> On Jun 28, 2019, at 9:06 AM, David Smith <d...@dolcesfogato.com> wrote: > > One reason, perhaps, that it has not changed is that some of us do not agree > with the idea of removing all context of an email message. I get a lot of > emails that have just the response and I have no clue what they are talking > about. A bot to do this would be horrible since it would remove the > possibility of seeing the information. > > Now, if every email had a link to the thread in the email archive that the > email was part of, then removing context would be fine - I could easily go to > the context in the archive. > > A contrarian view. By the way, I spent the last 50 years in the high-tech > industry, have been on and led many standards bodies, currently must deal > with a couple of hundred email messages a day (on just the one out of 5 email > accounts I have), and sympathize with the large amount of content to wade > through. But, context is so important that I am willing to deal with having > more, rather than less, information in an email. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
