Comments on: 7 Bad Email Subject Lines

By: Meryl

Meryl — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:03:30 +0000

@saraj, that has to be annoying especially when keywords don’t show up in the beginning.

By: saraj

saraj — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:21:44 +0000

My boss not only uses the first line of his message as the subject, he often writes the entire email in the subject field. Not just oneliners either.

By: Meryl

Meryl — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:37:45 +0000

Karen and Brad — right on! Thanks for adding your notes. And most of us use emails as archives because they’re searchable.

By: Karen Putz / DeafMom

Karen Putz / DeafMom — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:35:26 +0000

I agree with Brad– I have so many emails with general titles and with hundreds of emails a day, it drives me nuts to try and go back to find emails that I need that are titled something like “link.”

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By: Brad Shorr

Brad Shorr — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:10:02 +0000

Meryl, Subject lines are like titles – sometimes the most important part of the document. It’s not only a question of getting the reader to read the email, descriptive titles help the reader file, identify, and retrieve the email for later use. It drives me bonkers searching my archives for an email when a simple, descriptive title would have enabled me to find it in a flash.

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