Re: [Usability] Mail clients put the Subject field in the wrong place

[Kalle Vahlman <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

2005/9/16, Matthew Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>:
> Hynek was using Evolution, a mail client that -- like most mail clients
> -- puts the Subject field above the message body in the composition
> window. As long as mail clients do that, and as long as humans go
> through forms top-to-bottom, it won't be surprising that they usually
> don't use the Subject line to summarize a message that they haven't
> even written yet. As a result, e-mail recipients worldwide will keep
> suffering Subject lines of the form "Re: something" and "(no subject)".

I wonder if the situation would be better or worse if the subject
field were at the bottom, as the usual thought after completing a
message is not "hmm, how would I summarize this message" but rather
"it's done, where's the send button".

And asking for it specifically after send (like a dialog) is pretty
much asking for it[1].


[1] Sorry for the pun, it was asking for it[2].

[2] I'll stop this time for real. Unless someone shows up asking for it.

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