On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8:46 PM, alister <alister.nospam.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > 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.
According to Snopes, that has happened in an email variant of the old "send this guy the standard cockroach letter" story (which is itself plausible and not provably false): http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/bedbug.asp ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
