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Date: Fri Dec  8 19:51:49 1995
From: Scott Brickner <sjb@UNIVERSE.DIGEX.NET>
Subject:      Re: TRO: subject labels
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Goran Topic writes:
>> As Lojbab says, people forget to use labels, and threads wander.
>
>I don't know. Labels as proposed are not too hard to remember: they're
>all (except VRC) three-letter rafsi of the lojban words describing the
>contents of the message.

And with this list in particular, 90% of the posting is done by a half
dozen people, so if those few are disciplined enough to use the tags,
wandering and mislabeling is kept to a minimum.