The idea is that any discussion about announcements happens on Foundation-l, so the reply-to is correct. You can subscribe to foundation-l and select not to receive any emails, which would still let you send emails. You wouldn't receive any of the responses to your emails, though. If you want to take part in discussion, rather than just read announcements, you should be subscribed to foundation-l.

On 30 April 2011 18:38, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:

Hi,

The Wikimedia announce list has foundation-l as reply-to:  I just replied to a mail Pavel send to the announce list and got this message:

Due to a large amount of spam, emails from non-members of this list are now automatically rejected. If you have a valuable contribution to the list but would rather not subscribe to it, please send an email to foundation-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.org  and we will forward your post to the list. Please be aware that all messages to this list are archived and viewable for the public. If you have a confidential communication to make, please rather emailinfo@wikimedia.org

That's very annoying and confusing. I now had to subscribe to a list on which I don't want to be to get my message through. I propose to either:

• Set a different reply-to: for the announce list
• Don't auto reject messages

Maarten

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