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| The subject-line of an email should let the reader know the topic(s) of the email to the point of differentiating it from other emails.
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| Poor subject-lines on email can hurt productivity and make people either open a message that is useless or skip opening a message that would be useful. Poor subject-lines may make recipients reject the email, thinking it is from a spammer.
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| ==Examples of poor subject lines==
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| Here we list poor subject lines and possible fixes.
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| ===Vague subjects===
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| ;Question about Rosetta Stone:This line isn't as bad as "Question," but why not include a short version of the question itself?
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| ;Does anyone have this book I can borrow?:OMG, put the title in!
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| ;Lab report:Yeah, what about it?
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| ===Subjects that could apply to any message===
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| ;This is interesting:If it wasn't interesting why would you send it?
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| ===Subjects that simply mean reply or forward===
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| ;Reply:Reply to what, or what is the gist of your reply?
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| ;Follow-up
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| ;FWD
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| ;Re:your message
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| ;I got your message:This would be acceptable only if that was the only thing "you" wanted to know.
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| ===Meaningless combinations===
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| ;re:FWD
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| ;FWD:re
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