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Re: [LUG] spammers abusing From:

 

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Neil Williams wrote:
> Roger Bowden wrote:
>> Hi All
>> The original GMail email was genuine and sent from me but the 'LUG list' was
>> certainly *NOT* the addressee!   The posting on the LUG list was a great
>> surprise to me!
>> As a LUG newbie I would like to know more about the GnuPG signatures
>> referred to.   Can someone point me to a ref source please?
> 
> http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/gnupg.html
> 
> 
> 

He He ...

Ive just set up a key published it to a key server
and installed enigmail on icedove.

However one thing intrigues me ... your key is signed by many people, so
if I retrieve all their keys from the key server then I will have all
their email addresses. Is this not a way for spammers to build up large
databases of email address ?

Tom.

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