All email clients mark (aka "quote") prior content in some manner so you can
tell the new content from the old. To many people, "old" is "history"...
apparently not to either of you.

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"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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VanguardLH wrote:

There is no history. The e-mail is whatever the sender gave you. If
they quoted prior e-mails then their NEW e-mail contains whatever
content that they chose to include. It is not a history. It is
whatever the sender chose to include, and may not even be from prior
e-mails for the same discussion. Outlook cannot distinguish between
what you call "history" and whatever the sender put in the e-mail.

What you (and I before you) say is true, but Outlook 2007 DOES make an
effort at it. It seems able to detect included messages if Outlook's
top-posting conventions are followed. Nonetheless, it's still not
"history".
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