What Email Subject Lines Terrify You?
In an entertaining game of wits published yesterday on Medium, writers Virginia Heffernan and Paul Ford spent two months attempting to instill the fear of God in the other with their email subject lines. You know the kind.
The most anxiety-inducing email subjects are terrifying in their multivalence. For example: "Let's talk." Could mean your boss just wants to chat—or that he's going to fire you. So what emails do you dread popping up in your inbox? Tell us, in three sentences, what email subject lines produce in you feelings of dread and diarrhea. The best responses will be featured in a post later this week.
