Re: grep-2.6.3 released [stable]

[Jim Meyering]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     FYI, this probably is the result of my setting
>     "Reply-To: address@hidden" in announcement messages.
>     That makes it less likely that people will accidentally respond
>     to the info-gnu and other recipients of the announcement.
>
> How does that practice affect this?  If the person uses "reply to all",
> she will send the message to info-gnu, regardless of the Reply-to.

A few tests have shown that using Reply-To: doesn't help as consistently
as using Mail-Followup-To: would (at least with Gnus), so I'll switch to
the latter.  Thanks.

> (The message won't get through to info-gnu, because that list is
> moderated.)

There are other recipients, too.
The address@hidden address may not be moderated.
Regardless, the intent is to save the (human) moderators the trouble
of having to deal with misdirected replies.