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I’ve anonymised the following, to protect the guilty (note the cc: field):

Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:39:20 +0200
From: [list admin]
To: Sender <sender@domain>
CC: some-seminar@domain, some-list@other.domain,
        another-list@third.domain,
        list-the-fourth@another.domain, list-v@another.domain
Subject: Re: [some-seminar] March 30, 2007

Dear sender [sic],

Please note that it is possible to submit your announcement
to [our organisation's website], therefore we will ignore your
email and give you the following information:

In order to submit your message to our website and also to
have it distributed through our weekly mailinglist, please
visit:

http://[redacted]

However, your announcement should be related to research &
teaching programmes within our institute, such as:

[redacted]

Sender wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>this is the announcement of this Friday's talk of the Some
>Seminar seminar series.
> [details redacted]