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Submitted by Andrew (not verified) on November 7, 2005 - 8:33am.

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Starting a sentence in the subject line and finishing it in the body!

Subject: Can you… Body: …write proper subject lines?!

You have no idea what the email is about…

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Five email tics I'd love for you to lose By: Merlin Mann (95 replies) November 7, 2005 - 7:05am

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