• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    19 days ago

    Don’t most email clients, or possibly even the SMTP server itself, add something like “(no subject)” when you “forget” to add a subject line (after warning you about it multiple times. I think even the pine mail client did this.) So back in the day when no one understood email, and this is way way after that time period, you would see subject lines like “RE: (no subject)”

    So it’s weird to me to just see “RE” all by itself.

    That was my point.

    But I appreciate all of the replies educating me on the history of email. ❤️👍🏻🦕

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      19 days ago

      It shows up in the DOJ’s files without the “no subject.” Not the same Musk email, but a different one:

      It’s kinda funny how in business school, you are taught a lot about email etiquette, but at a certain level it apparently doesn’t matter.