"Fred A. Miller" wrote:
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Interesting, especially how it ends an a concillitory note. Agi-prop? Where I work we have the same sort of culture. Anyone can, and does, email anyone else. I prefer email to phone for the simple reason when some one asks for a change in a program, or wants to tell me about a bug, I want it in writing. When people call and begin discussing some topic, and I don't care what the topic is, I usually say I am "too busy to hold a phone conference right now, would they please email me?" I want that audit trail. If someone tells me they can't put it in writing my 'crap' detector goes off, and I become immediately suspicious. I've had people say one thing to me and another thing to some one else. Email locks their "story" in, and if there are problems they have to re-explain what they mean. It has cut down on 990f the office turmoil associated with "miscommunications" and office politics. If M$ doesn't retain their email culture my first assumption is that they are not being honest. If they were being honest their first defense against a DOJ attorney attempting to distort the meaning of an email message is to display and read all the email messages on that topic the preceeded and followed the msg in question. The truth will be obvious, most of the time. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>