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?
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