Yes, they do sometimes. I got into the habit of cleaning up emails before replying to them: removing signatures, some of the headers (but always leaving the From and Date lines), sometimes even some of the content, as some of us do here. But I had a boss recently who objects strenuously to that practice; he archives ~everything~, and wants to be able to check on everything, including who the email was ccd to, the contact info of the sender (thus the signature) and when the subject line might have changed. To be fair to him, he's a marketing type, so maybe that information can be more important to him than to me.
Funny how hard it is to remember not to do something once you're in the habit. He's not my boss any more, but we still correspond, and I still flinch and undo some of my changes when forwarding an email to him. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. -David Lloyd George */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 22:07 And, I have worked for companies that required you to leave all the previous emails being quoted. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
