Clipped Messages in Gmail--- maybe it’s Outlook 2010 B2
As it turns out my clipped messages in Gmail that I have complained about in a prior post may actually be related to a defect that was in Outlook 2007 Beta releases. You can find some information at the Microsoft Outlook Product Team blog. This also explains why I was only seeing the clipping of my messages on email coming from a specific email distribution list. This list happens to be a group of Microsoft product team members, champs, rangers, MVPS etc. Effectively a high concentration of likely early adopters for Office 2010 Beta products.
I have not confirmed this is the root cause but it seems likely enough that it’s not worth further investigation. I do believe this issue is cleared in the RC version.
This doesn’t relieve Gmail of what I still see as major problems in their method of handling of clipped messages but it does give me a better explanation than I had of why Gmail was clipping the messages. I still disagree with their implementation as it renders clipped messages as unusable/unreadable on their very own software for Gmail access on Blackberry phones if not other devices as well.