Oh dear god the new list seems to be reply-to-author by default?

Oh well, breaking tradition and user expectations in the name of
correctness is the right thing to do.

Mailing lists are still an immense outdated kludge. Now if only NNTP
allowed server side state. Or IMAP clients allowed you to easily post a
message into a folder without replying to something. Sigh, so many ways
to get it almost but not quite right... What the world needs is...

Citadel/UX! http://uncensored.citadel.org/citadel/

Which I have packaged here: http://www.haxxed.com/rpms/