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Posted By: Corey R. Shanus

Not a bad point, but the problem I see with it is that as a practical matter, in order for the sender to effectively rebut the summary, he/she will feel tremendous pressure to post the entire email, and then we are back to square one. So, while I think there is sound logic to what you say, on balance I still feel summaries should be prohibited as well.

Or, another way to look at it, if the main purpose of the ban is to not put a damper on people writing emails, I'm not sure if allowing summaries would not act as a comparable damper. In fact, it arguably could act as more of a damper due to concerns of the potentially misleading nature of summaries.