Keyserver and spam

[Ingo Buescher]

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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Andy Smart wrote:

> Whats the current state of play with keyservers and spammers? Is it 
> technically possible for them to harvest addresses from keyservers, and does 
> anybody know if its a problem?

Spammers definitely use keyservers to get addresses to spam. I uploaded a 
key some time ago with an address, that I never used anywhere before - two
days later they(tm) began spamming and no, the address isn't easy to 
guess.

> andy
>

Ingo
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Ingo Buescher <maillists at webmounty.de>
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