...why would you even *want* to have the listname for an announcement list exposed in the To and/or CC header of messages sent through the list? If a recipient replies to the list, it's just going to go to the moderators, right? In most cases, the person who is sending the messages will *be* the moderator. Why not just bypass this indirection and have the replies go directly to the sender (i.e., the moderator)?
One of the fundamental concepts of a mailing list is that people know that the content is being shared with multiple recipients, and anything they receive via the list is public knowledge (at least, to the other list recipients), and anything they post will likewise be public knowledge. By breaking this concept and making everything appear to be private e-mail sent directly from the moderator to the individual recipients, you are completely changing the apparent nature of the communication.
In a sense, you are lying to the recipients, giving them the illusion that each and every one of them is privately receiving this content. Moreover, any response that they may have has a much higher likelihood of being something that they'd share privately but would not state publicly, or at least wouldn't say the same thing in the same way. There would then be a serious risk that this response would then be shared with all the other recipients, perhaps to the very serious detriment of the responder.
Fundamentally, mailing lists should not try to hide the fact that they exist, and that the content being sent and received is being shared amongst other people.
It's fine for mailing lists to try to hide the details of their inner workings, perhaps to make it more difficult for people to abuse them inappropriately. But they should not try to hide their very existence.
Are the specifics of what I'm suggesting clearer now?
Nope. It still sounds to me like you're trying to abuse the software for spamming.
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