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The Central Ohio Linux Users Group has a mixed majordomo and Mailman run mailing list. Topics center (not too surprisingly) on Linux system setup, maintenance, and antecdotes. It is a moderate volume list -- maybe 5-25 pieces a day. It does, however, have a nice, high content to 'noise' ratio, and is aggressively UCE (unsolicited commercial email, i.e., spam) filtered ... A digest of each list is available. A few notes regarding all lists:

Please try to keep posts polite and on-topic. See also: RFC 1855; Godwin's Law and its corallaries have never been invoked here, but would apply and be enforced in an exceptional circumstance.
Only subscribers may post. Posts containing HTML and their posters may be silently dropped from the list. Long running bouncing accounts are silently unsubscribed by the MailMan program, or manually if a mail blockage is detected by the list administrators. Repeat offenders will be silently removed from the list.
Posts containing administrative keywords (subscribe, unsubscribe...) will be deferred and posted after being reviewed for administrative requests.
Posts are archived in a pipermail form. These archives are here, here and here..
The list members are quite knowledgeable, and several members post only thoughtful analysis. As such, the archive functions as a FAQ. Please consult it, if it seems to you that your problem should have already been discussed. In like fashion, a poster may get a reply: "Archive" and a URL, as a perfectly fair response. Beginning a Google search with site:colug.net can help much in searching the archives.
Please -- no commercial, for sale, or jobs posts in the main list; jobs posts have their own list; commercial or for sale are just off-topic everywhere; Repeat offenders will be silently removed from the list.

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A subject line header of [COLUG] is automatically added to each post. This should help users using mail sorting software. If your post does not immediately show, it probably was directed by the program to an editor, for possible 'repost.'

I'm hungry ...

There also exists a 'colug-lunch' list, with a broader charter ['I'm hungry in body and soul -- Where do the geeks eat?']. here

I'm looking for a better job ...

There also exists a 'colug-jobs' list, with a broader charter ['I heard about an opening that was interesting']. Recruiter posts here, please, rather than in the general mailing list. here

Reply-To Munge

     We 'munge' the Reply-To header, as a conscious decision. See, e.g., the Majordomo FAQ at section 3.4. See also: this. The appears to be sanctioned at section 4.4.3 of RFC 822.

     For a contrary opinion, see here. This topic is probably a vi vs. emacs, or a TUI vs. GUI debate -- not capable of one 'correct' answer. If you find this problem, consult man procmail, and you can mangle inbound mail as preferred and to taste. Failing that, see this link for a compilation of mail and news management tools. See also, demime.

     And then speaking of contrary opinions, there is DJB's (and not DJB ex Red Hat) check-in on the topic here, implicitly ignored in RFC 2369.

     There are several expired draft RFC and related Reply-To proposals: DRUMS, Mailing List Behaviour (Tip o' the hat to the RPM-List)

     As noted, we also 'brand' the subject line of the list, but see: RFC 2919 -- Except for the history of the group, its orientation to help new users, and the fact that it greatly pre-dates this RFC, we would probably not ... .

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