Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread David Shaw
Hi everyone, Periodically there is a discussion on this list about whether having your key on a keyserver will result in more spam. My feeling on this is that you might get more spam, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the usual onslaught that streams in daily. That being said, I just

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread Joke de Buhr
I've never gotten any keyserver related spam so far and my public keys with a valid mail address were published year ago. I think it's more likely you will get spam because you are posting to a mailing list which does have a html archive (liks this one). If you want to get rid of most spam,

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread David Shaw
On Thursday 10 June 2010 16:00:18 David Shaw wrote: Hi everyone, Periodically there is a discussion on this list about whether having your key on a keyserver will result in more spam. My feeling on this is that you might get more spam, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the usual

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread Joke de Buhr
I never said this particular spam message was not caused by someone scanning the keyserver. I only stated it isn't that common and never happened to me. The chance someone harvesting your email address through keyserver scanning is less common than harvesting archives of mailing lists.

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 10 June 2010 at 3:35:34 PM, in mid:201006101635.36328.j...@seiken.de, Joke de Buhr wrote: I've never gotten any keyserver related spam so far and my public keys with a valid mail address were published year ago. In order to

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Joke-- On 06/10/2010 11:22 AM, Joke de Buhr wrote: I never said this particular spam message was not caused by someone scanning the keyserver. I only stated it isn't that common and never happened to me. The chance someone harvesting your email address through keyserver scanning is

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Donnerstag 10 Juni 2010 16:00:18 schrieb David Shaw: Periodically there is a discussion on this list about whether having your key on a keyserver will result in more spam. My feeling on this is that you might get more spam, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the usual onslaught

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread Joke de Buhr
On Thursday 10 June 2010 17:29:18 MFPA wrote: Hi On Thursday 10 June 2010 at 3:35:34 PM, in mid:201006101635.36328.j...@seiken.de, Joke de Buhr wrote: I've never gotten any keyserver related spam so far and my public keys with a valid mail address were published year ago. In

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread Jameson Rollins
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:32:05 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: And i should probably add that it is indeed an infinitesimal drop in the bucket compared to the other spam i receive; i'm not concerned about it. Not to mention that the bother of a couple of extra spams is

[OT] spam avoidance via IP-based filtering at the MTA [was: Re: Keyserver spam example]

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/10/2010 11:57 AM, Joke de Buhr wrote: You do not sacrifice legitimate incoming mail because there is an RFC that clearly states mailservers do not operate from dynamic IP addresses. Therefore they can not be considered valid. Please cite this RFC. All IP addresses are dynamic in

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 10 June 2010 at 4:57:50 PM, in mid:201006101757.53020.j...@seiken.de, Joke de Buhr wrote: One of the addresses of my key is totally unprotected against spam. Nothing is blocked or scanned there. And it doesn't get any spam at

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread Jameson Rollins
Speaking of spam, I'm getting more spam from some sort of automated ticketing system that seems to be subscribed to this list that I ever have from a keyserver. The mail seems to come from: secure.mpcustomer.com and it often sets the From: to be from someone else. This is totally uncool. Is

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Donnerstag 10 Juni 2010 18:39:25 schrieb Jameson Rollins: Speaking of spam, I'm getting more spam from some sort of automated ticketing system that seems to be subscribed to this list that I ever have from a keyserver. The mail seems to come from: secure.mpcustomer.com and it often

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread Peter Lebbing
On -10/01/37 20:59, Joke de Buhr wrote: You do not sacrifice legitimate incoming mail because there is an RFC that clearly states mailservers do not operate from dynamic IP addresses. Therefore they can not be considered valid. Which RFC would this be? I could not find the word dynamic in

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 10 June 2010 at 6:04:37 PM, in mid:201006101904.37296.mailinglis...@hauke-laging.de, Hauke Laging wrote: Am Donnerstag 10 Juni 2010 18:39:25 schrieb Jameson Rollins: Speaking of spam, I'm getting more spam from some sort of

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 6/10/2010 8:16 PM, MFPA wrote: Whenever I post to this list these days I get one of their auto-replies, and they always spoof the from address to whatever I had in the to field of my message to the list. [lots of discussion deleted] I think it's safe to say the list moderators are now well