On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:04:54AM -0800, Douglas Phillipson wrote:

> This list appears to have mailman configured as to NOT put the rlug's
> list address in a reply.   Is there any specific reason for this?  In

Because Reply-To munging is frowned upon. I can't remember why, exactly;
there are regular flame wars and explainations on MTA lists about why
Reply-To is a "Bad Thing (tm)" so I won't recap it all here. The main
reason usually given is that it increases traffic on high-volume lists,
and makes it harder to reply to off-topic stuff off-list.

Of course, a good MUA such as pine or mutt will handle this gracefully
(pine asks whether to honor the reply-to, and mutt offers offer
list-reply features). Whatever you're using probably does, too.

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