This nt. appears after some of the posts in the book. What does it mean please?

No text.

Meaning a subject line only and no text in the message field.

Hmm...

Can you do that here?

You can't, can you, as there is no subject line for a reply.

Once upon a time there was. It's more useful if you're dealing with a system that only shows the subject lines of posts and requires you to open them if you wanted to see the content. I think some forums work like that. (Usenet used to work that way, at least the readers I used.)

People use a variation of it around here in email, especially for short announcements:

"Offline until 4pm EOM"

That's the subject line. EOM standing for "End of Message."

What do you mean for email?

Like if I send you message by email I'd get an auto response?

Confused.

Your brain works in ways I don't understand.

I mean, people write emails which have only the subject, for example "Offline until 4pm. EOM" (meaning "I'm going to be away from work and my computer until 4 this afternoon") or "WFH today NT" (meaning "I'm working from home today"). The body of the email has nothing in it; the entire message being the subject.

So, when I receive one of these emails, I see the subject (ending in EOM or NT) in my inbox, and know I don't have to open it to see the rest of the message, because there is no rest of the message. I just select and delete.

Oh, that. Yeah, my peeps don't do that to me, if they did I would call them lazy.

I work with programmers. For programmers, laziness is a virtue.

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Originally posted by colin:
I work with programmers. For programmers, laziness is a virtue.

And what do you do in this programming rich environment?

Pretend to design and implement software while I work on my cheesy novel.

Is it a cheesy sci-fi novel?

When it's done, I bet Shad can hook you up with his people.

Oh it is Sci-Fi. Or, at least, that's the section where they would stuff it in a bookstore.* It's fairly unapologetic about that.

<sub>* Actually, it occurs to me it might get filed under paranormal romance.** Yikes. That would be wrong, since there is no romance, but since when has that stopped anyone?

** A sub-genre I wasn't even aware existed until a couple of weeks ago.</sub>

You want to share with the class what it's about?

See my response in Draw Something Now, but if you want a blurb... let me think of something... maybe I'll post it in Write Something Now and link from here.

Just in case: The thing I just posted in Write Something Now is not the blurb.