poor choice of words on list overview page

In Mailman 2.1, the cgi which gives the list of available mailing lists says something like this:
List administrators, you can visit the list admin overview page to find the management interface for your list.
Send questions or comments to mailman@lists.samba.org
A few people persistently interpret the "send questions or comments" as meaning "send samba user questions" rather than "send questions or comments about the mailing lists". This seems to happen a couple of times a week.
(Fairly reliably the people who make this mistake also send mail that is lacking in any useful detail and is therefore pretty pointless anyhow, but nevertheless they have to be forwarded or bounced.)
I think a better phrasing would be something like
"Please send problem reports about the mailing list to %s"
Ideally this text might be a per-site customization, rather than hardcoded in Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py. I have fixed it there for the time being.
-- Martin
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