[danielconde]

If the lengthening indicates that vague subject lines such as "Hello!" or "Changes" is being replaced by something more specific like "Meeting at 3 p.m. agenda changed", then it's a good thing. I also like all the info in the subject line, such as "Free pizza in the break room <eom>"

[derefr]

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.

[AstroJetson]

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. ;-)

[randycupertino]

I answer tickets at my job and the subject line allows them to on forever, but due to our system the message will be truncated when it comes to me.

I have this one rep who will always send me tickets with the subject line reading, "Hi Randy Can you come take a look at this my software crashed three times and I don't know what to do I've tried restarting it and that hasn't seemed to help and then I got a bugsplat error message....."

I've explained to her 4x that the subject is truncated so all I see is, "Hi Randy Can you"

She still doesn't get it. Now I just walk over to her desk and ask what's up if she sends me something.

It's like trying to tech support my grandma, except this coworker is a 28 year old Berkeley graduate.

[derefr]

You can't just WONTFIX her with a "no info provided; cannot reproduce"?

[randycupertino]

Heh :) I think I might try that tomorrow!