Sorry, everybody, I've tried to follow this thread, but I fear that some 
messages at an early stage got lost.  (I think I've now found most of them in 
the archives, but it didn't help a lot!)

I gather it revolves around changing the Reply-to field.

Can someone tell me what currently happens to the Reply-to field, what the 
options under discussion are, and what will happen to the discuss list after 
the change?

Am I right in saying that the Reply-to field is currently replaced with the 
address of the list?  This results in moderated posters not getting a copy of 
the replies since their email address is removed.

An additional complication is that many replies to moderated posts are 
themselves moderated.  Andreas Säger is a case in point.  He's a prolific - and 
extremely informed - contributor, but all his replies are moderated.  Any 
mangling of his posts are going to remove the op, but ensure that Andreas gets 
a copy of his own solution.

Personally, I favour the line taken by the author of the web-page referred to 
in an early that the RFCs are well thought-out, and one should have a _very_ 
strong reason for messing with them.  If we continue to replace Reply-to with 
the list address, perhaps the handling of moderated posts could send a message 
to the op suggesting they follow their thread on Nabble (and explaining why)?  
This would, of course, piss Andreas and other frequent non-registered posters 
off no end unless an exceptions list could be created.

I think, on the whole, educating our members to use Reply-All instead of 
Reply-To might be the way to go although this begs the question of how and 
where the list address would be added, which in itself is a form of mangling.

//James
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