cuatrocientos cuarenta--!?Que te pasa?!

I don't know about all you other catalogers out there, but I find this business about OCLC dropping the 440 uncontrolled series title line and using only the 490 controlled series title line (with a first indicator of "0" instead of "1", no less!) sans dovetailing 830 line a bit misunderestimatingly confusing as to its purpose...and now I hear "e-mail talk" of the droppage of the 490 controlled series title line and using instead the (formerly) dovetailing 830 line...I mean, it just seems a little unnecessary to go through all this droppage and indicator changing and so forth when we catalogers (probably) know when to use a 440 or 490, etc. ...!... But I suppose it doesn't really matter, as we continue to do what we want to with our records when we download them from OCLC, anyway...But, there you have it, and I'm sure you agree totally!