On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 23:38 -0400, David wrote: > My 'problem' is with the 'not publish the Public Key' thinking. > > Can you explain his thinking on that? I already did, two messages back: "There are spammers which just leech new addresses off PGP (key) servers as they arrive, and immediately spam you. And if you had more than one address on the key, they spam each of them. "I removed some addresses from a key, and the next set of spam only spammed the current set of addresses on the key. That doubly proved the point that some spammers regularly harvest the key servers. "And since many different key servers talk to each other, it doesn't help you by deliberately choosing to only upload your key to a particular server." i.e. Publish a key, and it immediately causes you to receive spam at any and all addresses that key is associated with. It's been that way for at least ten years, that I've observed. And I don't see it stopping. It's as bad as putting your email address on your website. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
