I too use the wrong tool for the job; I am reading this through news://linux.debian.user (newsgroups are so much more convenient that mailing lists, particularly since I already read a dozen newsfroups), which preserves every header, so I can munge them back into something sensible, *except* it doesn't preserve Reply-To (for your posts, it sets "Mail-Copies-To: never", which I use in my script to detect people not wanting reply-tos).
Possibly this is why people reply-to you directly.
No. They do it because
a. The list doesn't set reply-to
b. With the settings this list has, most popular UAs such as Tbird deduce that if I reply, it replies only to the contributor. The alternative is "reply all," and then people need to prune.
This is a discussion list, and IMV its settings should reflect that use.
There are lists where off-list replies are appropriate: say I'm selling DVDs and this is my customer list. You and I would want replies to go to my enquiries address, not to the list.
The list's settings should reflect its primary use. This is a discussion list and its settings should reflect that.
I personally think that policies on mailing lists shouldn't dictate things like reply-to (not that this one has been made publicly known other than through your rants), because some people prefer to get a reply-to (me, for example - reply-to means I can see any responses to me straight away without having to wait for the mailing list to do its thing), and I think it clutters the list to say "please reply to me". Let your mailer do its thing (set your own reply-to[1] as necessary, as you do), and hope that everyone respects it.
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