As found in #1729098: Drupal 5 legacy mode does not allow comments by users with View permission, D5 Legacy Mode is broken in D7 and the OP is the first person to even notice.

It makes no sense to fix and continue to maintain such an obscure feature.

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Status: Active » Fixed

Committed to the -dev version.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.