Quoting in Emails?

Shanes asks: "I want to know how slashdot readers feel about the IMO ever worse quoting habits of people writing mails. When I started writing emails to friends and colleagues over 10 years ago I and everyone else quickly learned how to quote. These days most of the bytes in my inbox are "Original Message" quotes that Outlook people always include at the end of every mail. Doesn't anyone care about sending well edited mails anymore?" I have a simple rule, if I can't read it without editing it first, it's probably not worth my time. Do any of you get frustrated by the formatting of email in your inbox?

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Re:Sorry, but no.

[Wolfger]

2) I can archive a single mail and have saved the whole discussion. Do I work with you? If so, let me know. I would have lots of fun editing the older portions of quoted text (I'm sure you don't read the full history of every message), rendering your single-message archive humorously useless! (or, if you get on my bad side, I could subtly alter the history of our conversation so that blame for project failure falls squarely on your shoulders...) Single message archiving only works if you can trust the person you're conversing with. That's fairly rare in a business environment.