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

[Shane Williams]

I have tried so hard to stay out of this, but I have to address an
aspect of this debate that often gets overlooked.  As Jerry summarizes
below, the general sense of pro-"reply-to munging" folks is that it
makes life easier for so many people that it's worth doing.  

But, be aware that reply-to munging, because it destroys any existing
reply-to information, makes certain things not just more difficult,
but impossible.  Namely, it makes it impossible to reply individually
to a poster who actually uses a different reply-to address than the
one used to post (and possibly different from the one subscribed).

This is perhaps a small enough edge case that reply-to munging
advocates are willing to sacrifice it, but you have to be aware of
that cost.

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Jerry Yu wrote:

> Allow me to summarize what we have so far:
> 
>    - reply-to: list     No action required of the end user, but a simple
>    change by the list admin, I assume
>    - reply-to-all:      user needs to delete the current poster he
>    replied to; or to be flagged not to receive duplicates

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