randall writes:
> this list sets the "reply to" to the original sender of the message
> instead of the list itself.

It does no such thing.  Here is the relevant part of the header of your
message as received here.  No "reply to" present.

  Message-ID: <[email protected]>
  Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:48:40 +0200
  From: randall <[email protected]>
  User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817)
  MIME-Version: 1.0
  To: [email protected]
  Subject: Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?
  References: <[email protected]>      
<[email protected]>  
<[email protected]>   
<[email protected]>  
<[email protected]> 
<[email protected]>
  In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
  X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
  X-Rc-Virus: 2007-09-13_01
  X-Rc-Spam: 2008-11-04_01
  Prev-Resent-Message-ID: <7vvuldh0-sb.a.jhh.rkm...@liszt>
  Prev-Resent-From: [email protected]
  X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/560958
  X-Loop: [email protected]
  List-Id: <debian-user.lists.debian.org>
  List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]>
  List-Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=help>
  List-Subscribe: 
<mailto:[email protected]?subject=subscribe>
  List-Unsubscribe: 
<mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
  Precedence: list
  Prev-Resent-Sender: [email protected]
  Prev-Resent-Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:49:06 +0000 (UTC)
  X-UIDL: 2QZ"!FKB"!A'W"!5iY!!
  Prev-Resent-Bcc: 
  Lines: 41

> i always need to remove the TO and change the CC into TO, not sure if
> it works the same on all mail clients but i use Thunderbird.

Use "reply-to-list":
<http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=ReplyToListThunderbirdExtension>
I found that in five seconds with Google.

> it might be more productive to send a polite request to change this
> default behavior to the list maintainer instead of some other remarks
> made in this thread.

Pointless.  This has been discussed repeatedly for years.  Your problem
is not that the list sets something you don't want but that it does not
set something you do want: "reply-to-list".  That is not going to
change.
-- 
John Hasler


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