Re: policy around 'wontfix' bug tag
On Mon 05 Feb 2018 at 18:06:34 (+0000), Brian wrote:
> On Mon 05 Feb 2018 at 12:53:36 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 05:31:29PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> > > AfAIK. there isn't any way to determine whether a message posted to
> > > -user is from a non-subscriber.
> >
> > I believe some people are using the one of the X-Spam* headers
> > and looking for the LDOSUBSCRIBER substring. Which is extremely
> > non-obvious, and probably not a vector that ordinary users can
> > easily pursue.
>
> The presence of LDOSUBSCRIBER indicates the post is from a subscribed
> member. It absence tells you nothing about whether the person (as
> indicted by the From: header) is subscribed or not.
Agreed; I've never earned the privilege of that in my header.
I've sometimes wondered whether that's the reason I occasionally
fall foul of the spam filter, and have to re-post.
Cheers,
David.
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