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Re: Changing the "Reply-To:" for debian-security-announce (Was: "[SECURITY] [DSA 3501-1] perl security update")

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I'll second this motion.

A good proportion of the traffic I get from debian-security
is simply silly people trying to unsubscribe themselves from
debian-security-announce by replying to DSAs.

And while most of them do not respond with empty threats of spam,
the policy of setting the "Reply-To" mail header in DSAs to
"debian-security@lists.debian.org" has certainly generated it's share
of garbage.

So I have to ask: Why *are* the lists set up this way?
Does anybody know?

If nobody knows, or if the reason no longer makes sense,
what is the opinion of the list in general about changing
the policy?

Any comments from listmaster@lists.debian.org?

On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 08:41:32AM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote:
> Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > He replied to a post to debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org yet
> > everybody who replied to him how to unsubscribe from
> > debian-security@lists.debian.org. Amazing how he's still on the list,
> > isn't it?
> 
> Yup. Wouldn't it be possible to set the Reply-To, Mail-Followup-To and
> whatnot for debian-security-announce to some address in ending with
> @invalid or @example.com? 'cause replying to an announce list without
> even checking the destination address is ill-minded behavior in the
> first place if you ask me...
> 
> -- 
> Florent

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      Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 3501-1] perl security update Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2016-03-01 21:10 +0100
        Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 3501-1] perl security update Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> - 2016-03-02 08:50 +0100
          Re: Changing the "Reply-To:" for debian-security-announce (Was:  "[SECURITY] [DSA 3501-1] perl security update") Grond <grond66@riseup.net> - 2016-03-02 11:00 +0100
            Re: Changing the "Reply-To:" for debian-security-announce (Was:  "[SECURITY] [DSA 3501-1] perl security update") Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de> - 2016-03-02 11:10 +0100
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