Meta question w/rt list

[Linda Walsh]

Saw these come not far apart -- and I had to "restart" an email or two when I
noticed that pressing "reply" didn't go to the list as it does on some lists.

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Please keep the mailing list in the CC so that others may participate
> in the discussion and enable it to be available in the archives.
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Eric Blake wrote:
> Please keep replies on the list, so that others may chime in.

Would it be a bad thing to set mail-list software to automatically
default to the list as the 'default' response, and the user would
have to address an email, manually, to not respond to the list?

Depends on the nature of the list, but more often announcement lists
are set to respond to poster, while error&feature discussion lists more
often have the list as the default Reply target.

(Assuming the list SW can filter out bounces and mail errors...:-))...
Linda