On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 22:07:05 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: >And, I have worked for companies that required you to leave all the >previous emails being quoted. > That's what archives are for. That's what "In-Reply-To:" headers are for. A companiy having such a concern should provide a viewer that shows messages threaded by those headers rather than foolishly replicating all prior text. Many viewers support that function.
>They found that too many times people were quoting just the right >statements to leave the impression that the original poster said >something they did not. Next thing, everybody thought "Joe" said >something when he really said the opposite. > >And, the big problem is that they were right. Too many people take the >statements out of context to tear someone else down build themselves up. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
