TL;DR So vote, and quickly. keep Reply-To in place so that messages, by default, go back to the list for the conversations hampering easy (r)eply to author tiny (and private) conversations ignore Reply-To and let a bunch of tiny (and private) conversations occur and consider that users use a (g)roup-reply mechanism in their mail programs to keep public conversations going I'll watch what I receive and make a final decision later today or tomorrow. My diatribe: I find references to Mailman people talking about this, the URL you mentioned and a few others. (more than a few, the debate has been going on for a very long time) I am on the side of option #1 to keep conversations by default public and list-bound (ie; using the Reply-To header). I also consider the Reply-To header a perfect mechanism for getting this done as this is a *discussion* list, not an announcement list and keeping conversations within the list unless explicitly decided by the end user. More searching around this morning finds this: Mailman uses the List-Post header (described in RFC2369) in some of the mailing lists I am on but not all, and I am finding during my 90+ minutes of testing this morning that most MUAs don't honor this regardless of what the RFC says. FreeBSD mailing lists are Mailman and use the Reply-To header but not consistently across the board. All three anti-spam lists I am on use the Reply-To header and a mix of Mailman vs home-grown list software. Multiple Mailman lists I am on are using Reply-To for announcement and discussion lists. Discussion lists are running ~20% Reply-To included, the other 80% are not. Multiple LISTSERV lists I am on are using Reply-To for announcement and discussion lists. Discussion lists are running ~70% Reply-To included, the other 30% are not. BTW: RFC2822 is a proposed item and has not reached the final standard level. But that's the problem with RFCs isn't it? -- Mike Horwath ipHouse - Welcome home! drechsau@iphouse.net The universe is an island, surrounded by whatever it is that surrounds universes. - Berkeley Fortune ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MICE-DISCUSS list, click the following link: http://lists.iphouse.net/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=MICE-DISCUSS&A=1