Outlook should condense all e-mail chains of same subject into 1

[Guest]

e-mail storage is increasing exponentially.
Outlook should have a feature whereby you can run a function to combine all
e-mail messages from the same chain into one message and eliminate the
redundancies.

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[Vanguard]

e-mail storage is increasing exponentially.
Outlook should have a feature whereby you can run a function to combine
all
e-mail messages from the same chain into one message and eliminate the
redundancies.

Yeah, right, especially since it is the user that is editing the reply which
quotes the original message. The user can quote whatever they want using
whatever quote character they want and can insert their own comments at the
top, between quoted parts, or at the bottom. There is NO enforced method or
scheme for quoting. E-mail is like writing a memo and then passing it
around, and you want to somehow organize that memo after several users have
written on it using whatever style they wanted?

 

[Guest]

Do you want to stop wearing the black hat and think about how to actually
solve this problem? I could care less how someone applies a style to their
e-mail. Clean it all off or assimilate it. Users do sometimes reply in-line,
but I see more replies where they just append and this is what the original
post was referencing. It doesn't even matter if a user copies part of another
message to the top of the e-mail. I just don't want to store what is BELOW
what they append more than once.

I don't doubt that a system could be developed and implemented to organize
reply objects so that this functionality could be implemented. There is no
reason to keep 15 e-mails in a chain when the most recent one includes ALL of
the information.