The point is that there is no point. They take up space without serving any useful purpose. This is a particular problem for those with limited-width mail readers such as Mutt or Pine.

Ian.

On 3 May 2006, at 16:17, John C.C.White wrote:

OK. I'll disagree:

- the list is low-volume
- Subject: headers rarely overflow my (entirely reasonable) space allocated
- I haven't seen any bogus [freenet-devl] messages (yet).

Really, what's the point/need?

-John-

On May 3, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Ian Clarke wrote:

This makes a pretty persuasive argument for ditching the [freenet- devl] subject tags on mailing list emails:

  http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/qralston/writing/tagging-harmful/

If nobody can come up with a good argument against this, I suggest we follow its advice and remove the Subject tags.

Ian.
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