Monday, February 9, 2009
Did you get my email about hello?, pt. 1
Some people just don't get what email subject lines are about. Or maybe their lives are so frantically hectic they can't spare the two seconds of thought required to make them meaningful. Or maybe they're just not cursed with organizational OCD. Hard to say.
When I first learned about Gmail's approach to email organization, I liked the idea but wondered how accurate the threading would be. I whimsically envisioned the scenario shown here, in which commonly repeated subject lines result in monstrous threads of communicative chaos. I'm pretty sure Google has a better handle on things though, and do not allow this. They're pretty good at sorting through words and such.
A subtle easily-missable joke is that Ned's email is the only one Rob has read but never responded to.
