> As an experiment, I have turned on Reply-To munging. Reply-To now > points back to the mailing list (assuming I did it right).
I'll be interested in seeing how this turns out. I've been waffling on the issue since reading the original essay, but the rebuttal makes some good points. The purpose of a discussion list is to hold a discussion with a group of people, not individuals. For the majority of members, sending to an individual will likely be the exception, not the rule. I don't find it particularly onerous to copy the email address from the message text (since my mailer kindly retrieves the *author's* email in my reply text) and copy it to the "To" field.