Re: [Evolution] Evaluating Evolution- some basic questions

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 20:31 -0500, rob cginy net wrote:
> Here's another scenario that happens rather frequently in my world.  A
> conversation spanning several send/reply cycles gets to a point where
> another opinion is desired.  A single e-mail can then be forwarded to
> another party to review the past conversation(s) and provide whatever
> input is desired.
>
> How much time does it save when one of my engineers (who need to be
> billing for their time and not frittering it away) can just forward a
> single e-mail instead of hunting down 10 or 20 or 30 sent and received
> mails, collate them into some sort of intelligible order, and then
> send
> that off to Johnny in the other dept for comment.  And who's to say
> every
> important e-mail was included?

Funny you should say that. To forward this entire thread to someone else
I type Ctrl-H Ctrl-F. I don't have to hunt for anything because the
threading already keeps it all together.

Anyway, these are all personal choices. All I ask personally is that you
don't use the Outlook-style quoting *here*. If you need to use it
somewhere else, by all means go ahead.

poc