"Fred N. van Kempen" <Fred.van.Kempen(a)microwalt.nl> wrote: If your mail software doesn't do what you need it to do, maybe you need to complain to whoever sells and supports it, or find other mail software that does do what you need done. Asking the rest of the net to change so that you can keep using losing software is not nice. Here's how that works out here: I set up my mail software to strip the tag so I don't have to see it. (Clearly, my mail software wins: it doesn't just do what I need, but also what I want.) Then, when I reply to the list, my reply's subject does not have the tag. So messages in the thread can have at least three different subjects: [cc] foo Re: [cc] foo [cc] Re: foo I'd bet that there's a fourth possibility based on phase of the moon: [cc] Re: [cc] foo Do you begin to understand why I think subject tags are not a good idea? Yep, that's the problem. The way your message came across out here in Sillycon Valley was: "I know we've been over this before, so there's no need to discuss it, just vote to do this and then us folks who cling to our losing software will stop bringing it up." This is not the way to win friends and influence people, not that there's much hope of influencing me on this point. -Frank McConnell, filtering his incoming e-mail since 1994