On 16/03/11 9:54 AM, MFPA wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2011 at 1:06:26 AM, in > <mid:4d7d6a12....@adversary.org>, Ben McGinnes wrote: > >> Anyway, out of curiosity, did you ever receive spam by that address >> and prove it had been harvested from the keyservers? I still think >> harvesting addresses from the keyservers is too much effort for >> spammers, who mostly generate the target addresses, but it would be >> nice to finally answer that question. > > No mail received at all on that address so far. That key has only > been up just over a year.
I think that if spammers were harvesting addresses from the keyservers then you would have received some by now. I don't think they bother because: a) The effort required to harvest the addresses would be better spent elsewhere and most, if not all, spammers are lazy. b) It would be easier to just generate usernames at a target domain name than to work from a large list (these days). c) It is more likely that OpenPGP users are going to include people who will hunt down spammers and get their upstream providers to disconnect them. > Up until now, if I received any mail on that address, the address > could only have been harvested from a keyserver (or randomly > matched). Going forward, if I receive any mail on that address it > was probably harvested from the mailing list archive. That would be likely. Regards, Ben
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