The subject line of your message allows the recipient to easily decide if your message is worth reading. It also helps in finding important information in a overfilled in-box. Write a meaningful subject line. If you reply to a message and the topic changes, change the subject line to reflect the new topic.

When a brief response is required sometimes the subject line alone suffices. To make the message even briefer you can include your telephone number in your address.

Example:

From: Wayne

SUBJECT: AGREED; SEE YOU AT 5:00pm

 

WARNING:  Some E-mail applications do not display the entire contents of a lengthy subject line, so you may want to copy the subject line and paste it in the body of the message.

Consider writing a summary of the message in the first few lines of text, since many E-mail programs provide a preview feature that displays the first few lines of each message.