Replying to multiple posts below.

John wrote:
> Peter and the List,
> What's odd about our list protocols, at least to me, is that messages
> come "from" an individual to the list, but when your hit "Reply to
> Sender," meaning "I want to write just to the sender" what we get is
> only a reply to the List.

I'm on many lists where this is the default behaviour, and it is 
recommended practice generally as it encourages discussion on the list 
rather than off-list.  This is, after all, the point of a email discussion 
list.  If we only wanted to disseminate announcements, then a distribution 
list is a different but often used model.

> Maybe the list needs to rethink this matter.

I'd still vote for keeping replies being sent to the list, on this list and 
others, overall more good is done than harm.

Ann wrote:
> The easiest solution for all is to include a signature in all messages
> that repeats one's email address. Mine didn't...but I've now fixed that
> so that it will henceforth.

That gives people your email address certainly, but people should have that 
already in the From: field.  Of course, depending on whether list archives 
are public or private on this and other lists you participate in, this will 
also make your email address available to spammers.  I would highly 
recommend obfuscating through some means it in your signature if you do 
include it.

And while were on the topic of signatures, since they are an interesting 
textual phenomenon in themselves, people may wish to read the wikipedia 
article about them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_block 
Particularly you may wish to note how signatures should usually be formed 
according to the internet RFCs on netiquette (RFC 1855) and Signature 
Convention (RFC 3676).  This includes that you should start the signature 
with a single line consisting of exactly two hyphens, followed by a space, 
followed by the end of line, and that they are no more than four lines of 
less than eighty characters. The history of how these have developed is of 
interest to some.

-James
-- 
Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk