Most policies regarding email are that some topics are off limits for email. Certainly speculative business conversations should not be done on email, largely

Most policies regarding email are that some topics are off limits for email. Certainly speculative business conversations should not be done on email, largely because context matters a lot for those discussions. Though, you are right that most places ignore email until you get going pretty well, and then by that point the cat is out of the bag. It used to be that only official communications where important. And that was largely managed by you only kept official communications archived. Now that we can archive anything, it is getting kind of silly.