On the whole, this seems to me to depend on whether you want to
foment discussion and put up with the extra traffic, or shut
down discussion to avoid it.  I'd never thought about Reply-
to=List as _minimizing_ traffic . . .

> One downside of "Reply-to= List" is that if someone blithely hits
> the reply buttons to send a personal reply to the sender, it will
> go to the whole list.  "Reply-to= Sender" avoids this problem.
> But folks then have to "reply all" (and delete the sender's
> address from the To: or Cc: field) to reply just to the whole
> list.  It may be worth it if you manage to avoid a bunch of
> personal email traffic.

In any case, it seems to me this is less consistent than it was:
there's more variation in the way people's individual mail
programs handle this than there was a few years ago (and people
have, or take, less control over it).

-- Russ
St. Thomas University
http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/