> On Thursday 10 June 2010 16:00:18 David Shaw wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Periodically there is a discussion on this list about whether having your >> key on a keyserver will result in more spam. My feeling on this is that >> you might get more spam, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the >> usual onslaught that streams in daily. >> >> That being said, I just got my first piece of spam that was definitely >> caused by presence on a keyserver: >> >> Begin forwarded message: >>> From: "Stephen Lee" <stephen...@ymail.com> >>> Date: May 26, 2010 2:17:27 AM EDT >>> To: ds...@jabberwocky.com >>> Subject: enquiry : wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net:11371 >>> Reply-To: "Stephen Lee" <stephen...@ymail.com> >>> >>> >>> We found your contact Email address from wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net:11371 >>> My name is Stephen and I come from China, Hong Kong. >> >> (spam contents snipped - it goes on to offer to sell me LCD screens for my >> "retail store, shop, boutique or any public area")
On Jun 10, 2010, at 10:35 AM, 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. > > 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). Please read the spam I quoted above: "We found your contact Email address from wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net:11371". When the spammer takes the time to tell me he crawled my address from a keyserver, and is even kind enough to tell me which one, I'm inclined to believe him. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users