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Re:Email subject lines seem to be getting longer by derefr on Sunday February 21, 2016 @05:03PM (#11146826)
Hypothesis: texting and Twitter have gradually forced (some) people to learn the skill of writing concise summaries of their thoughts, where centuries of schooling have failed.
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Re:Email subject lines seem to be getting longer by AstroJetson on Monday February 22, 2016 @04:45AM (#11149669)
I'm willing to buy into that. I'm very happy that they are doing that. But sadly, many are now tying to be more concise and the subjects now look like tweets with truncated words (please = pls) so its a new mind bender to decipher the subject. Lots of times its read the subject, go ??!?! and the read the body and spend a few mins trying to figure how the got the subject lines

When I start getting emojis in subject lines it will signal the death of email. ;-)

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