On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:39:14AM -0500, John Kaufmann wrote: > On 2021-01-25 08:56, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >... > >Sometimes I get the impression that some economic actors hate mail > >because it can't be fenced-off as easily as the "social" silos and > >are doing their best to kill it. > > > >A pity that pgp/gpg hasn't caught on better. > > That comment led me to wonder about what contribution pgp/gpg might make to > fighting spam. That led to pgp.mit.edu/faq.html, which has this ...
...although I didn't mean to imply that. OTOH, such shenanigans as Brian reports (the mail provider changing mail's content in transit -- hamfisted much? What else do they do?) would be cut short by that. > >Q: I think spammers got my email address from the PGP keyserver. What can I > >do? > >A: Yes, there have been reports of spammers harvesting addresses from PGP > >keyservers. Unfortunately, there is not much that either we or you can do > >about this. Our best suggestion is you take advantage of any spam filtering > >technology offered by your ISP. > > ... which of course brings us back to what triggered this thread. Now, I > suspect IAC that addresses harvested from a PGP server would be unprofitable > for a spammer, but do you have something operational in mind? Look, I don't fear spam as much as provider's greed. FWIW, I run my own mail server and have next to no spam filtering measures (whenever some source becomes annoying, I quench that one directly) and the amount of spam I receive is mildly annoying, at most. IMO the best anti-spam measures are a good MUA and a knowledgeable user. Cheers - t
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