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[Darrell Fuhriman <address@concealed>]

> Reply-To in the digest itself is set to list-request because it  
> doesn't make sense to reply to a digest, likely to contain several  
> discussions. How is it possible to know to which message(s) people  
> reply? It's just like, in a room full of people discussing several  
> different topics, somebody would suddenly shout "me to!" aloud  
> without speaking to someone in particular.


That's not what's happening.  People aren't usually replying to a  
specific message in the digest, they're hitting reply, deleting the  
message, changing the subject and sending an entirely new message to  
the list. People don't bother to remember the list address, especially  
if they're infrequent posters (as digest users often are), they just  
reply to the last message they got and compose their new message.

I see this *all* the time whether from digest users or regular users.   
One need only use an MUA that threads based on In-Reply-to headers to  
see how often this happens.

Besides, one of the reasons I like sympa, is that it doesn't generally  
assume to know better than I do about how to configure the lists.   
Clearly this is an exception.

Darrell