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Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
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Re: Subjects |
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06 Aug 2001 18:51:56 +0200 |
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"David R. Linn" <address@hidden> writes:
> The mailing list software supports such things but I, among others, am
> strongly opposed the inclusion of such tags.
0) They waste screen space
> 1) They waste space (disk and bandwidth)
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> 2) They interact *badly* with insertion of "Re:" and "Fwd:"; some
> (naive) implementations also interact badly with digesting
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> 3) It is easy to use other attributes of a message (I've left several
Jan.
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