Sam’s random musings

How to Construct the Perfect Email Subject Line · The Cranking Widgets Blog

How many times have you received an email with a subject line that said something like “Question” or “FYI”? Or, worse yet, had no subject at all? For all the millions of email messages that traverse the Internet every day, the ability to effectively formulate an indicative subject message seems to be fairly unimportant to most people. A quick skim of the last 100 or so email messages you’ve received will likely support my claims.

The minimum: * Use keywords like Question, Response, FYI or he says ’spam’ why the heck would I send spam? and why would I read your email if you tell me it’s spam, I’m not some kind of Spam junkie, my sister in law is… * Briefly describe the subject * Never leave the subject blank

Now these are good, worth linking to in your .sig but really, why do people need to be told this, it is maddening, why do people not at least describe in the subject.

how do I know it bugs me… I wrote about it before http://blog.samdevore.com/archives/2007/09/16/email-subjects-welcome-to-my-pet-peeve/

(Via Sandy’s Blog.)