list-admin :: default to 'reply-to' the list ?

[Daniel Silverman]

Many people want to munge Reply-To headers. They believe it makes  
reply-to-list easier, and it encourages more list traffic. It really  
does neither, and is a very poor idea. Reply-To munging suffers from  
the following problems:

It violates the principle of minimal munging.
It provides no benefit to the user of a reasonable mailer.
It limits a subscriber's freedom to choose how he or she will direct  
a response.
It actually reduces functionality for the user of a reasonable mailer.
It removes important information, which can make it impossible to get  
back to the message sender.
It penalizes the person with a reasonable mailer in order to coddle  
those running brain-dead software.
It violates the principle of least work because complicates the  
procedure for replying to messages.
It violates the principle of least surprise because it changes the  
way a mailer works.
It violates the principle of least damage, and it encourages a  
failure mode that can be extremely embarrassing -- or worse.
Your subscribers don't want you to do it. Or, at least the ones who  
have bothered to read the docs for their mailer don't want you to do it.

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

On Nov 1, 2006, at 5:54 AM, Jerry Yu wrote:

> I am new to this list. Not sure the topic is covered before or not.
> I'd like to have the posts have 'reply-to' set to the list. This  
> way, when I hit reply, I am sending to the list (as well as to the  
> thread), instead of to an individual or his/her post, which my  
> comments may or may directly concern.
> wonder how many interesting bits had been lost (from the list  
> archive) since the author didn't take the trouble to CC the list  
> after replying to an individual.
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