Why isn Reply-to set to respond to the mailing list?
Some other mailing lists re-write the Reply-To header so that replies go back to the list. This is wrong. There is no good reason for it. When you receive a message via the mailing list, its sender is (usually) a single person. If you wish to reply to that person privately, then you reply as normal. If you wish to reply to that person and Cc the list, then use the group-reply feature of your mailer. That is what it’s there for. If the Reply-To header had been re-written to point back at the list it • stomps on any Reply-To header already set by the original sender, and • makes it harder to respond privately to the sender.
