On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 11:15 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 28.11.2011 09:12, schrieb les: > > On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:00 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> in business-communication top posting and TOFU is normally > >> because with TOFU you need only the last mail of a conversation > >> and with the top-posting you need not to scroll and see the whole > >> answer in the preview after select a message > >> > >> so this is all a point of view > >> > > But business email is not normally archived for later use. It is > > essentially one time communications with a few exceptions. And this > > difference is essential between a mailing list and simple email > > exchanges. > > Just my 2 cents worth, and that ain't much these days > > where do you work that you are allowed to delete business-communication? :-) > > > Well, I'm retired now. But day to day communications about everything non product related, like submit this report, or check on customer x, and so on were deleted routinely. Today, not much is deleted, I know, from the central servers, but on the users local disk, a lot of the day-to-day communications is deleted routinely, and would only be looked at in some larger context, possibly legal, but even in that area, much of it is just the drivel of how work gets done. Sometimes it might lead some legal beagle to some smoking gun, but likely it is just noise. Additionally the ability to archive huge amounts of communications is a relatively new capability. I retired in 2005, and disk space was still a bit of a premium, and I know there are limits even today. Many of my communications with customers contained files of encrypted and/or compressed data, and a single programs data files could easily exceed 5G for one version with generally multiple versions. The data was often transmitted in several files via EMAIL and sometimes through web portals with encryption and specific one way accounts. I am sure those communications, which detailed the progress of programs and developments are archived somewhere and probably several somewheres. But by and large, these things have a limited shelf life in the corporations usage, so the archives were typically TAPE, which was dated and stored off site. They were and probably are not designed like a mailing list archive for instantaneous retrieval and review. Nor in most cases is the historical linkage valuable to someone perusing the work for references. Likely they are interested in the end product for reproduction or reuse. Which is not the same type of use as a mailing list. Regards, Les H -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
