On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > That depends on what the mail is being used for. For instance there's > a difference between mail-as-dialogue and mail-as-business-process. > In the former it is normal, even polite, to prune as the topic evolves > and past quotations become less relevant. In the latter it seems more > common for the entire thread to be preserved as a sort of "chain of > custody" -- this way the next person who needs to see the email thread > has full context as to what needs to happen and where the request is > coming from.
Sounds like a job for an internal wiki, actually. Have you ever gone back through a fifty-post thread, reading through its entire unpruned context to find something? And if you have, was it at all practical? Somehow I doubt it. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
