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



On Wed, 02 Mar 2016, Grond wrote:

> 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?
Because people expect that they can answer a DSA.

Alex

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