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I got an email from my girlfriend today with the subject line: “What time are you getting home EOM”

I was a little curious about whether this EOM was a typo or a new nickname she’s given me, and when I clicked into the message there was nothing in the body.

I emailed her back and asked “What’s with the EOM” and she responded “It means End of Message.  It’s a way to save time by letting you know there’s no body to the msg, just that quick question,” and sent this link.  I responded, “Well it didn’t work that well did it because we’ve emailed each other 4 times now and you still don’t know what time I’m getting home ; )”

I didn’t get  a response to that, so clearly she was not amused, but despite my response,  I think this is a great idea… providing people know what it means.  I am actually going to try and get everyone here at VizQuest on board with this convention.  I think it’s great for a few reasons:

1. It saves time for quick messages not to have to click into the message, particularly when I’m checking my email on my Treo.
2. It forces people to be concise.  The only thing that annoys me more than an a rambling email is when people leave a voice mail message saying “call me back.”  If that’s all you had to say you could have sent a page or a text and saved me the time of dialing into my voice mail… but that’s a topic for another post.
3. It guarantee’s people will read it.  When I’m short on time I’ll just scan through the subject lines looking for something important, but with an EOM message, important or not, I get the whole message and I breeze through.

EOM

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