On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 1:09 AM, Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org> wrote: > If the thread forks, and someone is brought into one of the forks to > help with an issue brought up in THAT fork, then the context will > generally be sufficient for that.
That assumes that they don't need any information that was posted in reply to something else. > Normally people WILL reply to the latest message in the chain (and in > fact Outlook will warn you if you are not doing that). The main reason > people don't reply to the most recent message is that several people > replied nearly simultaneously, and yes the other comments not in the > message people carry forward will get lost from the history. But for > that to happen you need multiple active participants in the conversation > which starts to strays away from the model. Considering that I've had situations with 3-4 active participants and replies-to-non-last-emails on our family mailing list - a list whose membership is literally just my parents and siblings (including one sister-in-law) - I would be astonished if it's a rare occurrence in corporate environments. Unless, of course, the norm is to snap off an email instantly, without bothering to actually put any thought into what's being said. Oh wait, it probably is... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list