"Lincoln, Michael C" mclinc@essex.ac.uk writes:

What the alug list needs is a replyto: in the header...

No, it does not. We've been here before. A quick refresher:

1/ If alug doesn't set a reply-to, people just need to remember to use "reply to all" when they want to reply to all. This seems a reasonable requirement to me.

2/ If alug sets a reply-to, people pressing "reply to author" actually "reply to all", which is clearly broken.

3/ If alug sets a reply-to, the original value of the reply-to header is lost for all time, which may be bad.

4/ Some people (including me) like to get a copy of replies to my message faster than the list server passes them on. If you don't it's fairly easy to filter off things which have a list in the cc.

5/ There's also the wooly point that many of us are using Linux because we like something which follows reasonable standards and don't want to see it become another gaggle of conflicting closed shops.

Therefore, alug will not break standards and screw the headers.

PS - main@lists.alug.org.uk is where this list now lives. alug@stu.uea.ac.uk will "go away" soon. Please update yourself.