On 02/26/10 10:34, Martin Bretschneider wrote: > Hi, > > I want to recreate my GnuPG keys. My question is if I can omit the email > address? Since I do not want my email addresses to appear on the > keyservers because of spammers and so on.
1. It's been repeated many times on the list that those who have investigated the issue have determined that the amount of spam to addresses harvested from keyservers is negligible at worst. 2. You're far more likely to get spam to an address by using it to post to a public mailing list. 3. The whole idea of taking any kind of steps to hide your address from spammers has been overtaken by events. They will get your address. They will send you spam. That's just how the world works now, and pretending that you can do anything about it by "hiding" your e-mail address is just foolishness. 4. The proper place to deal with spam is on the receiving end. First your mail server, and second your MUA. "Smart clients" like Thunderbird have built in spam fighting. Unix command line tools have access to things like bogofilter. 5. And finally something germane to the list, the amount of trouble you will cause for yourself and others by omitting your e-mail address will far exceed any benefit you may get from "hiding" your address from the spammers. hope this helps, Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users