So I received yet another piece of pharmacy spam, and as usual I glanced at the headers to see who was propagating the latest valium deals. Much to my surprise, this piece had been sent to my personal email address. With a name like Krazek, not much random spam gets sent to my address unless they harvest my address (compared to simpler character combinations like vale ot byu dit edu which attracts spam like none other). Googling my email address quickly turned up the fact that the following PGP key servers all have unadulterated email addresses readily harvestable without a robots.txt
pgpkeys.mit.edu wwwkeys.de.pgp.net pgp.surfnet.nl keyserver.mcbone.net (This one only showed up in cache) Is there any reason these sites shouldn't have robots.txt warnings? Is there a recourse to get my address off their sites? I admit I've created a couple of PGP keys and can't remember the passwords for them. Will they drop off these lists in a couple of years when the key expires? Sure I don't have any particular proof, but it seems my web of trust has become a web of spam, which really loses my trust Scott K. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
