http://blog.hardeep.name/computer/20080806/spam-gmail/
This is one way to avoid this. Have a "public" address and a private address. Redirect email from the public address to the real (private) one when the "from" field matches that of the lists you subscribe to. On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Bill Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7-Sep-08, at 05:50 , Phil Reynolds wrote: > >> It seems that somebody has harvested this address, as I received an >> off-list spam to it. > > > If you have added that address to a public PGP key server, that will be the > reason. spammers have been harvesting key servers within the pgp.net domain > for several years. > > As well, anything sent to a public list like this may be archived on web > pages, inviting harvest for spam. > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > -- Hardeep Singh http://blog.Hardeep.name _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
