> 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. I wouldn't have the > quoting style any other way. I understand that it eats storage space > and bandwidth but if a single e-mail is deleted from that conversation (doing > it the other way) > it can cast doubt on the entire process. So that single, final mail with > every > back and forth message is vital. Or several of them if the conversation > spans multiple subject threads. >
So you trust, in a legal context, that people haven't edited the previous messages that you have dutifully copied in each and every email?? If you don't, and you have to go back to the original emails to verify the content, then what's the point in copying them each and every time? No, top posting leaving all the previous emails intact is purely because people (a) don't know that they should delete extraneous text, or (b) they are too lazy, or (c) they *think* it helps provide context. None of which, in my view, or valid reasons. Use threading, it makes things much easier. P. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
