Do you write your entire message in the Subject line?

[Qacer]

To: Me
From: Co-Worker
Subject: Can you please tell me the number of people going to the meeting next week, so I can make arrangements for it? Thanks!

Body:
<blank>


This is the same person who likes to brush his/her teeth in the hallway.

What's your take?

 

[loup garou]

God I fvcking hate that.

 

[pontifex]

sounds like you need to mind your own business

 

[broon]

So how many people are going to the meeting?

 

[SynthDude2001]

Sounds like something dug777 would do.

 

[leftyman]

will there be donuts?

 

[ScottFern]

Yeah all the morons at my work do that as well. Its quite funny. The grammar of the top managers is atrocious also.

 

[bonkers325]

if its a short message like that, then its not really that big of a deal. as long as its not several sentences

 

[Strk]

Only if the message is very brief (I.e. Yes, lunch at 3:00 or something equally short)

 

[Tobolo]

Reply back that the message he sent was empty. If he would he kindly resend the email with the message in the body.

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: loup garou
God I fvcking hate that.

If the message is short enough - then it makes great sense.

What is your problem with it?

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: Tobolo
Reply back that the message he sent was empty. If he would he kindly resend the email with the message in the body.

Why do so many people have a problem with it?

 

[preslove]

I don't have a problem with the subject line. It's quite communicative and efficient. You can't ignore the message.

As for brushing his teeth in the hallway, that's just weird. It's something his boss should tell him not to do.

 

[daveshel]

Our spam filter blocks messages with no body.

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: Qacer
To: Me
From: Co-Worker
Subject: Can you please tell me the number of people going to the meeting next week, so I can make arrangements for it? Thanks!

Body:
<blank>


This is the same person who likes to brush his/her teeth in the hallway.

What's your take?

I think the two things you mentioned in the post are unrelated. Brushing teeth in the hallway is a little strange, but a short, concise message in the subject of an email is no problem to me. I've done it on occasion.

 

[SonnyDaze]

Reply back in the same manner. But send a separate reply for each person that says they are going to the meeting.

 

[smack Down]

Originally posted by: daveshel
Our spam filter blocks messages with no body.

That is retard.

 

[Qacer]

Well, there are other emails address to me that are longer. But today's is the straw that broke the camel's back. The annoying part is having to go to my junk folder and "un-junk" it. I don't mind short subjects, but if I have to do extra work to sort out thru my junk mail, then it sucks.

 

[crystal]

Originally posted by: Qacer
Well, there are other emails address to me that are longer. But today's is the straw that broke the camel's back. The annoying part is having to go to my junk folder and "un-junk" it. I don't mind short subjects, but if I have to do extra work to sort out thru my junk mail, then it sucks.

You filter internal email? Your IT suck.

 

[robothouse77]

um, it's ok i suppose. i don't and will not do that...

 

[Qacer]

Originally posted by: smack Down

Originally posted by: daveshel
Our spam filter blocks messages with no body.

That is retard.

You'd be surprised how many SPAM email I get with empty bodies. Sometimes the SPAM mail just contains an image attachment with no body.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Garet Jax

Originally posted by: loup garou
God I fvcking hate that.

If the message is short enough - then it makes great sense.

What is your problem with it?

It's done out of a sense of convenience on the sender's behalf, but it's not more convenient. The recipient doesn't immediately know that the subject contains the entire message, and opens it anyways, only to be greeted by a blank body. It's just one of those little frustrating things that irks me.

 

[BrokenVisage]

While I don't subscribe to that kind of format, I see nothing wrong with it. E-mail is SUPPOSED to be 'clear, concise, and cogent' as my former IT professor liked to jam into our heads. If you were to ever send him an e-mail with more then 3 or 4 sentences he would send it back to you and demand revision before he read it, this is not a joke.

 

[step-dawg]

At my company people do it all the time for short messages like that. Of course we'll usually put something like <eom> to signify that it is the end of the message and there is no body text. it's easy to read and saves time from opening up the email just to read one line of text. Of course we don't write entire paragraphs in the subject line.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
While I don't subscribe to that kind of format, I see nothing wrong with it. E-mail is SUPPOSED to be 'clear, concise, and cogent' as my former IT professor liked to jam into our heads. If you were to ever send him an e-mail with more then 3 or 4 sentences he would send it back to you and demand revision before he read it, this is not a joke.

That doesn't happen in practice.

/methinks said professor needs to suddenly meet concrete at 300 mph.

(/me is pissed off at the world today)