-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi
On Thursday 10 June 2010 at 3:35:34 PM, in <mid:201006101635.36328.j...@seiken.de>, Joke de Buhr wrote: > I've never gotten any keyserver related spam so far and > my public keys with a valid mail address were published > year ago. In order to *know* you have never received any keyserver-related spam, I take it the valid address on the key you published has never received any spam at all. I have a key with a valid (but unused) address that I published as a test three months ago. Since the address has never been used at all for any purpose, anybody using that address could only have got it from a keyserver. So far it has received no incoming messages at all. I have another key on the servers that shows a genuine address and has been there at least 18 months. I do use that address, but not for mailing lists, groups, etc. Spam typically comes in at the rate of about two or three messages a month. I have no reason to suspect the spammers harvested the address from a keyserver, but no way of knowing they didn't. David's example with the spammer saying where they got the address is very unusual, to say the least. > I think it's more likely you will get spam because you > are posting to a mailing list which does have a html > archive (liks this one). No comment on probabilities, but I should have thought going to the web interface of a keyserver and searching on "2010" (for example) would be a more efficient place to harvest email addresses than trawling through mailing list archives. > If you want to get rid of most spam, just filter > everything sent from dynamic ip addresses and you're > fine. Only if you consider sacrificing some legitimate incoming mail to be "fine." - -- Best regards MFPA mailto:expires2...@ymail.com There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQCVAwUBTBEExqipC46tDG5pAQpJcQQAiip5avz//ftrN9jlY1v0rppjyTo4c9Mg kmP0uGH+T4RFY4iCn9zt2p+TllYFrUp10cQae3g3tk7EG/d0QGoqps9QSQS2tkiP /O38HFJ+/snJ6uNT6bxnaFfMBmKQfVZzmhYFt/rYEfF2/zRZuOZabUkUyEhIHZ5I BLtFsgletuo= =WpLL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
