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From: Lucio de Re lucio@pro...
Subject: [9fans]
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 10:51:34 +0200

According to Boyd Roberts <boyd@fra...> :

> is this [name] nonsense in the Subject: line some kind of disease?

I find it useful, and users of a number of mailing lists off my system 
have voiced no objections.  I also enjoy the X-Face header line you 
use, but I can imagine objections to that too.

Most useful, the mailing list indication makes it easy to group 
messages using the obiquitus "Subject:" line sorting, whereas there is 
little in the line of consistent sort algorithms that will work 
reliably for any other header line (or message contentsm for that 
matter).

I don't think broken mailers come into the picture at all, and in any 
events, not everyone is in a position to repair their mailers.
-- 
Lucio de Re (lucio@pro...)
Disclaimer: I'm working at getting my opinions to agree with me.