Keyservers and Spam
Peter Clay
pete at flatline.org.uk
Mon Jun 9 11:13:50 EDT 2003
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 Jill.Ramonsky at Aculab.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems to me that the possibilty that spammers might harvest PGP
> keyservers for email addresses is a serious disincentive to using
> keyservers. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Solution: Have two addresses, a "secure" and "non-secure" one. Discard
all mail to the secure one that's not encrypted. OK, so you have to
process and discard it, but as a private individual the volume is not
going to be crippling.
Pete
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