On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:20:24PM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> Not exactly on SPAM detection rate, but on GPG/sig acceptance. If SA 
> could validate such sigs, there's a big benefit for *every* recipient, 
> 'cause if somebody forges e-mails with wrong sigs, it's marked as SPAM 
> and sorted out, even if the user doesn't have a mail client that can 
> check that. I sign all my e-mails, but how many that receive it can 
> check it with their client?

It's worth noting that I've seen signed mails get regularly mangled
when going through mailing lists, which is generally the only place I
see signed mails anyway.

So "bad signature" != spam, nor does "good signature" == non-spam.
Don't try to take sender verification and make it an anti-spam tool --
enough people are confused about SPF. ;)

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