Jonathan Knight writes:

I think the real name if its available and the list owner address if not. If you use the local part (e.g. j.knight) would still make it possible to guess the @keele.ac.uk if the mailing lists are all hosted on maillists.keele.ac.uk.

I agree with Barry. More precisely, I think we should more or less hard-code the $LIST-owner address in the mail-to URL, allow the display name (presented in the HTML) to be specified (defaulting to "$LIST-owner", maybe), and document that the list-owner address should NOT be given any special permissions (specifically, should not be subscribed to the list), and that a subscribed address should NOT be mentioned in that text. I believe the $LIST-owner address is handled by Mailman, so we can require that be configured when setting up the list.

This setup is just a BCP anyway in the "modern" Internet.

Steve