> doesn't make anyones life harder it hinders readability, esp. on small screens it hinders sorting of mail by subject it gets messed up with conversations involving multiple lists it's a pain to write filters to take the stuff out... bandwidth is not the issue. > Please consider this as someone who thinks it is a good idea because > some people want it not everything that some people want is a good idea. > regardless if they can jump through 10 more > hoops and get the same functionality with filters (on what ? return-path. it's required to be there, you know... > - I hate > it when people bcc: mailing lists and you loose the from/cc field > containing the mailing list you are filtering on) that's because you're using the wrong fields. nothing in the mail standards has ever required every recipient to appear in a to or cc field.