[EP-underground] New User Dislikes Subjects

Hi. I am a beginning user of Eprints, and am entering metadata on the 
default test archive interface. It is a real nuisance to have to 
specify the Subject (which uses the Library of Congress system).  For 
books this makes sense because the catalog information is in the front 
matter of the book, but it is unclear to me why I should have to do 
this for journal articles. For multidisciplinary articles, it might 
mean specifying a number of Subjects using the scrolling textbox, which 
would take longer than copy/pasting the rest of the metadata. I would 
rather just leave out the Subject. To what extent is a required Subject 
built into ePrints, or is it simply feature of the test interface that 
I could omit from a custom interface?

William Clocksin
www.clocksin.com