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 > > Received: from david by alum with local (Exim 4.80) > > (envelope-from <david@alum>) > > id 1eimCc-0000EV-Nv; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:13:18 -0600 > > Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > > by bendel.debian.org (Postfix) with QMQP > > 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.
