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I’ve noticed an interesting trend amongst some of my colleagues and those who would spam me.
More and more I am finding my inbox cluttered with messages where the only content is in the subject line. Yes, the body of the message is entirely blank, or else filled with the legal boilerplate signature corporate email systems automatically insert.
To quote from the very fine Email Essentials ezine over at Office Watch:
Many modern email clients, Outlook and Outlook Express especially, only show the first characters of a subject — all I saw was ‘your email to me’ and the rest wasn’t on the screen at all. In web-based email the subject also gets cut-off, especially if the receiver uses a portable device like a Blackberry or WAP based email.
Please please please put something in the body of the email to let me know you are human, please?!
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