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Re: [debian-ctte-request@lists.debian.org: Re: debian-ctte mailing list and spam]



On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:43:34PM +0100, Stephen Stafford wrote:
> Is there any reason not to just accept *any* gpg/pgp signed mail?  At the
> moment
> I've never seen a spammer signing mail, so *any* mail received that is signed
> is
> likely to be ham.  If it turned out they were going to start doing so, then
> fine, add the functionality (and leave room for it in the design now), but I
> see
> no reason to incur the overhead of checking signatures against a keyring if it
> buys us nothing immediately.
> 
> Perhaps implement the checking feature, but turn it off for now?

I have seen spam that looks like it is signed, but mutt doesn't show it
as such. I think perhaps they tried to sign it but failed to do so
properly. ;)

Chris

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