Maybe I misread the thread...
Did DDB give any inclination that the reply-to behavior of the
list would change at all depending on this impromptu poll?
His box, his rules, as far as I'm concerned.
It's the same way for the numerous lists and sites hosted on
my own server. I have good reasons for doing things the way
I do, and as arrogant as it sounds, guests suffer at my leisure.
Stubborn? Perhaps. But it's my server and bandwidth, and my
very rare and precious spare time spent maintaining the same.
I get to choose. Gold, rules, natch.
For the record, I agree COMPLETELY with DDB's choice not to
munge the reply-to headers. (Any mail client worth its salt
has both a "reply-to-list" and "reply-to-sender" function.)
Not that my opinion (or yours) should matter one bit.
If the discussion is compelling enough, perhaps people will
start using smarter mail clients, or (gasp!) learn/remember
the way the list works.
-Rick