Put Something Useful in the Subject Line!

Many of us like to save emails for one reason or another. Perhaps we’re just sentimental about all the cute kitten pictures, or perhaps it’s just because it came from you, but we can’t find the bloody things again unless you put something useful in the subject line to help us! Gmail will search the body of mail, but you can’t do that with the program I’ll use if I ever want to find it off line. I got one today that I know I’ll want to find again, but I had to forward it to myself to get something useful to index.

Give us a break, for cryin’ out loud! Forget "cute, " or "this is funny." They’re not only useless, they’re annoying -- and dumb. Something like "George Bush - matzoh balls," or "article about stem cells" does three things: it tells us what your email’s about, in case we want to save it to read later; it gives us something to search, if we can remember what it was about at all; and it gives some indication that you give a rat’s patootie about other people’s time and convenience.

If you can’t take that little bit of trouble, the thing probably wasn’t worth sending to begin with. Can’t you take another 10 seconds?

Oh...one other thing: some of us (one, for sure) have filters set to send "LMAO," "LOL," and "this is funny" straight to the trash can. Sure does unclutter the inbox.

Have a nice day. :p