questions@ vs. freebsd-questions@

[Nikola Lecic]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:14:43 -0400
Gerard <gerard at seibercom.net> wrote:

> On August 14, 2007 at 08:34PM Nikola Lecic wrote:
> 
> 
> > Why can't I send a mail to questions at freebsd.org? Has anybody else
> > noticed this?
> > 
> > If someone sends a mail to questions@ (which is usual, I don't know
> > if it should be), Reply-All in some mail clients will leave that
> > address as is. If I accidentally miss that fact and don't repair
> > the address by hand, reply will not be registered by the list
> > software and that mail will not be distributed.
> > 
> > Assuming that the same would happen with ports@, I've just repeated
> > my post to that list, adding freebsd-, but the mail -- as it should
> > -- appeared twice, so my apologies. :)
> 
> Is there a reason that you cannot just use the address specified in
> the email headers of messages distributed by this forum. This is a
> snippet from the headers from your message.
> 
> List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
> List-Unsubscribe:
> <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
> <mailto:freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> List-Help:
> <mailto:freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org?subject=help>
> List-Subscribe:
> <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
> <mailto:freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
> 
> You will notice that <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> is also listed as
> the correct address on
> <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>
> 
> The address: <questions at freebsd.org> does not appear there anywhere.

Gerard, thanks for the reply; that's why I asked if question@ should
be used. postmaster@ explained that all short forms should work the
same way as long ones (ports@ and freebsd-ports@, test@ and
freebsd-test@). In my particular case, it is an occult SMTP server
problem that (almost) always prevents me from sending to short-version
addresses.

But according to postmaster@, short forms are OK and legal.

Sorry for the noise.

Nikola Lečić