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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:13:36 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> I have a list of pretesters that I send the announcement to.  I keep
> it in sync with emacs-pretesters, but I don't send the announcement
> _to_ that mailing list, because that would tend to lead everyone to
> mail all their statements of success or failure to the list as well.

Won't `Reply-to' solve this more conveniently?

> People should use that list only when they have a specific reason to
> do so.

The usual reasons were, IIRC, to inform the pretesters about known
problems and their solutions/workarounds.