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Re:BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful by killjoywashere on Friday September 13, 2019 @06:29PM (#20967303)
I have a boss who would treat the subject line of his emails like SMS. The body of the email is often blank. I have adopted that. It makes BLUF look slow and awkward.
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Re:BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful by ska on Friday September 13, 2019 @06:45PM (#20967421)
That works really well if it finishes with EOM or <eom>.

Otherwise it's unclear if there is missing content.

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Re:BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful by anotherevan on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:07PM (#20967585)
I use to do this (with an "EOM" on the end) but gmail doesn't lend itself well to this.
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Re:BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful by sitkack on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:14PM (#20967637)
this was a common msft corp email technique in the 90s. it worked really well<eom>
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Re:BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful by kajmagnusmobile on Monday September 16, 2019 @12:07PM (#20985494)
We did this too at my first job, and I also included SOM and MOM for start and middle.
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