[FWP] Re: List Administrivia: Tag

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 11:16 -0400 6/18/99, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> Why is there a subject tag AT ALL?  It is just a waste of bytes and

> Does it serve any purpose other than for the clueless [who can't
> figure out how to tell their mailers to sort/filter/file by 'to/cc'
> address]?

We're not all clueless :)

Some folks just like to have redundancy.
Some have suboptimal (or nonexistent) filtering systems
Some people like to do "filter by eye" or "sort by subject"

TMTOWTDI

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