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[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

> 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.

FWIW, I'm with Darrell here -- replies to digests should go to the list, or 
at least we should be able to easily customize that header.  As he says, 
people who receive digests do so because (even more than most) they rarely 
post and they want to pay minimal attention to the list and its traffic, so 
they're just going to hit reply and edit and send.  Their replies currently 
go only to the list owner (ie. the trash) when the intention is always to 
send to the list.  I realize the default behavior for regular reception is 
and should be for replies to go to the sender, to avoid mistaken list 
replies and possible loops, but in the case of digests those concerns are 
less valid, and the default reply-to should be the list.

I've got some of my own complaints about buggy 5.3.4 behavior on the way 
though, so hold on to your hats....

    ab