Email etiquette and use of subject headers

From: Brian Striman (brians@unllib.unl.edu)
Date: 10/27/93


                                IDEA
Please consider putting the email "subject" header to better use. Avoid one
or two word descriptors which do not convey an accurate content of your
email message. The subject header line is capable of handling more than 10
characters.

Consider your audience when you key-in your subject header words. It can
be annoying to review email messages which don't tell the reader anything
about the content of the message until the email message is actually
pulled up from the main list.

There are many of us who go through 40-50 emails per day and the subject
headers are a crucial first-step delete feature if the wording in the
header conveys that the content of the email isn't important.

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