Man page says -i, --extract Copy-in. Read the archive from standard input (or from the file supplied with the --file option) and extract files from it, or (if the -t option is given) list its contents to the standard output. If one or more patterns are supplied, read or list only files matching these patterns. The -t option alone implies -i.
But the man page does not mention the -t option. Only --list, but without explanation. So the user gets confused. Now turning to the INFO manual, '-t' '--list' [*note copy-in::] Print a table of contents of the input. Can be used alone, as a mode designator, in which case '-i' is implied. Well we have a look at copy-in, but there there is no mention of either -t nor --list.