Re: policy around 'wontfix' bug tag
On Mon 05 Feb 2018 at 20:26:46 (+0000), Brian wrote:
> On Mon 05 Feb 2018 at 13:13:18 -0600, David Wright wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I cannot account for that (and I doubt listmaster will enlighten us) but
> this mail of yours has
>
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> id B714B37A; Mon, 5 Feb 2018 19:13:44 +0000 (UTC)
>
> Very timely.
Is that meant to tell me something (as you wrote "but")?
Cheers,
David.
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