Gmail has released a very nice tip over on their blog. I use Gmail allot to send allot of quick messages that only contain a subject. When you do this you always received a prompt that you had to click through in order to send the message. If you now add “EOM” at the end of your subject you will no longer be prompted if you want to send the message. This also helps the person receiving the email know that there is nothing else included in the email.
Gmail Blog Post
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/tip-sending-empty-messages.html
duh- it takes more “time” to type those 3 letters than it does to make one click.
So what’s the use in doing that
But it displays EOM part in the mail. Isn’t it nice to not display that in the subject line when received?
I agree that is does take time to type in the extra characters, but it also takes time to click on the OK box. It also does display the EOM message. I find that actually to be a good thing so if you can only see one line of the message on a mobile device you know that there is nothing in the body of the message.