On 2014-01-16 5:12 PM, Kaz Kylheku kaz@kylheku.com wrote:
GNU Mailman, fairly popular mailing list manager, defaults to turning this behavior off, and that default is documented as being recommended.
and that recommendation is based on some silly corner cases, like 'mail lists where abused women are discussing things, and don't want their posts to be sent to the list be default'.
The bottom line is, the vast majority of posts to email DISCUSSION lists should, by default, go to the list - otherwise it defeats the purpose of a DISCUSSION list.
I totally understand and acknowledge that there are legitimate cases where the default reply-to should NOT be the list, but the simple real world fact is, in the vast majority of cases, that simply is not the case.
In a fresh posting, the mailing list is in the "To:". Otherwise, the mailing list is in the "Cc:" header
And this is only true for those who send to BOTH the list AND the sender
- which should only be done if thst is what the SENDER wants (and they
should explicitly say so by virtue of properly setting the Reply-To).