No offense intended
None taken! Everyone has to stand on guard against bloat. 
“everything to everyone”
I sympathize with the concern, but this is an actual need on our production server, and as we try to pull more things in from loosely-related mailing lists, we would like to make these look as much like the old lists as possible, and what I’m thinking about should only be a few lines of code and a handful of strings in the average database, if I do it at all.