On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 12:21 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
BAW> I find that my typical approach is to scan the summary, BAW> opening any potential hamI assume you mean "ham = on-topic, spam = off-topic, possibly but not necessarily UCE"?
In this context, yep!
Our lists don't have a topicality problem, so I don't think I've ever had need to open a post. The summary subject invariably shows spam vs. ham.
Often, but not always. I probably find myself tricked about 10% of the time. ;)
Unfortunately, you can't open a subscription request. I know, the text doesn't show much in most cases, but we could look for header forging. I don't understand why this distinction was made; would it cost resources to give access to the subscription requests?
Probably not. I'm sure there was a "good" reason buried in history, but it's not a bad idea to revisit this.
-Barry