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

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Ken Snider wrote:
> 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?

Very much seconded.

Cheers -e
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)