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

[Ken Snider]

Daniel Silverman wrote:
> 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. 

Really?

It reduces email traffic, supporting the "principle of minimal-bandwidth", 
and is doubly important in today's spam-laden morass that is email.

Without a munged Reply-To header, your choice is a) reply to the author, or 
b) generate two emails, one to the author, one to the list. How is this 
sensible if the vast majority of responses really only need one destination 
- the list?

The "nodupes" setting in mailman is misleading and dangerous - if mailman 
sees your address on the header, with this option set, it will not send you 
a copy of your own post. How, then, are you supposed to verify the post even 
made it to the list?

Lastly - principle of minimal effort: why support the default case that, for 
the vast majority of cases, requires a poster to delete a recipient? 
wouldn't it make more sense to have the list default reply actually go where 
the vast majority of posts are *intended* to go?

-- 
Ken Snider