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E-Mail Use Falls as Young Chat and Text

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The company decided to eliminate the subject line on messages after its research showed that it was most commonly left blank or used for an uninformative “hi” or “yo.”

For what it's worth, good ol' mail (/mailx/Mail) makes the subject field explicitly an option.

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