OT: SPAM in this list?

[vedaal@hush.com]

>Message: 5
>To: debug <debug@centras.lt>
>Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
>Subject: Re: OT: SPAM in this list?
>From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
>Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:13:55 +0200
>
>On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:16:35 +0300, DeBug  said:
>
>> address book) got infected with sobig.f virus.
>> The autentification of the sender becomes more and more urgent
>issue.
>
>Which won't help very long because the first trojan so send
>authenticated message will soon pop up.

an interesting potential solution, which would also increase the web
of trust,

might be to reject e-mails signed with 'unknown' keys.

a subscriber could submit a key when joining,
(and have the key 'banned' by the list if it turned out that the subscriber
was spamming), 

(but then we'd all have to sign ... ;-)

vedaal
(unsigned because of hushmail alterations and verification difficulty)



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