Reconstructing text from a thread of messages

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Howard Kaikow

When I Reply to someone, I often eliminate most of the quoted text.
When I am exchanging a series of messages on the same Subject with a
particular addressee, I sometimes see a response that includes ALL of the
text from ALL messages I have exchanged with the sender.

I oft see this when corresponding with someone at particular companies.
It would appear that, perhaps for "legal" reasons, they are required to
quote ALL text in a thread, not just from the previous message.

It seems that some mail software has an option to reconstruct, and quote, a
thread.
Can Outlook do this?
I would guess that a macro could retrieve all the text from a thread and
construct such a message.
 
Howard Kaikow said:
I oft see this when corresponding with someone at particular
companies.
It would appear that, perhaps for "legal" reasons, they are required
to quote ALL text in a thread, not just from the previous message.
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Naw, they're just too lazy to use cut-and-paste.
It seems that some mail software has an option to reconstruct, and
quote, a thread.
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I strongly doubt it.
Can Outlook do this?
No.

I would guess that a macro could retrieve all the text from a thread
and construct such a message.
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If one of the partners in the communication has edited his or her reply to
remove a portion of the conversation to that point, it would be impossible
to retrieve the removed portion.
 
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