Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
I don't mean to further heat up this discussion, just one question: isn't the most reasonable way to reply to a mailing list posting to the *list*? What sense does it make to reply only privately to a ML posting? Sure, in some rare cases one may want to get into contact privately with a poster, but in the vast majority of cases replies should go to the list.
It depends on the list's purpose and policy.
Personally I don't want to have to think about whether I have to reply to the sender or to the list - I just hit the Reply button and want the message to go where it makes sense, which in case of a mailing list is the *list*.
Funny, for me it's just the opposite. I decide what I want and then hit the appropriate button, and all I want is that my mail client does what it's told to do.
IMHO Nothing is worse than if a private reply accidentally goes to the list. Not inserting Reply-To: means protecting people from making this mistake. (As I mentioned mutt can be configured to ignore Reply-To: in mailing-list postings, so there is no problem for *me*.)
Since I have set up my procmailrc to insert Reply-to headers for the mailing lists I'm subscribed to, there is no real problem for me. All I want to avoid is that people send messages to me privately _and_ to the list.
Currently Mailman is configured to avoid dupes.
Johannes