Allow same posting via mail-in to more than one category?

In that case, no one will be expecting to be able to reply to the announcement and have it go to the announcement list and the discussion list, so sending two separate messages, while annoying, doesn’t interfere with the desired behavior.

What I think you’re really asking for is for a topic to be in two categories. (At least I can’t come up with another solution, but maybe I’m missing some clever workaround.) That’s not going to happen.