On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 06:34:46 +0100, Paul Rudin wrote:
>
> It's not necessarily a bad idea to retain context in corporate emails.
> Messages tend to get forwarded to people other than the original
> recipient(s), and the context can be very helpful.
>
Right up to the point when someone forwards on an internal email chain to
an external customer without bothering to prune out the bit where someone
(usually an engineer like myself) has stated (bluntly) that what the
salesman is proposing will never work*.
the longer the chain the more likely it is for something like that to be
missed by the sender who wont have bothered to read everything (for some
reason the recipient always finds the embarrassing statements).
*Or some other commercially sensitive & even more damming piece of
information.
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