Context is always important. The only reason to crop is when a link
deliberately placed in the content of a message is disabled and placed
below. Navigating through the oceans of indented carats to find the
live link can be annoying.
RA
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Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 6:07 PM
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Subject: [LUTE] Asteroid heading for Earth! We're all doomed!
I agree with Davidâs disagreement. And, obviously, with Wayneâs
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.
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