Should you include your email address on key server?

[Francesco Ariis]

Hello Atod,

Il 13 maggio 2025 alle 03:01 Atod Bora via Gnupg-users ha scritto:
> What are the best practices and/or pros/cons of including your email
> address on the key server?  For instance now, I have not included my
> email address, yet it is in the signature.
> 
> I was reluctant to include it because of spam harvesting, however I have
> read it may not be an issue.

My experience:

I have a personal email address I use only for private communications.
I do not use it to subscribe to sites or anything similar.

I added it to a keyserver in 2012; I have yet to receive a single spam
email.

Maybe email harvesting is not profitable anymore
—F