If your question isn't answered here, feel free to contact the author, Henk Penning.
There are really only a few frequently asked questions, all related to email addresses.
This question was asked once or twice a week. I got fed up with it and substituted@ → .at.in every uid.After the change, the questions stopped ; the spambots didn't.
Hmm... You can do it yourself. The uid shown is the uid with the most recent self signature. To hide your email address, add a uid without one, and/or make sure it is selfsigned last.
The only system that really works is : don't show email addresses. Any other system can (and will) be broken by spambots.
Fighting spambots is a lost battle ; fighting spammers is winnable, and a lot more fun.
I hate spam, but I don't believe in hiding email addresses.My various email addresses appear on countless many web pages. A lot of spam is stopped by our MTA (postfix) ; the rest is filtered out by spamassassin ; I see some 10 spams a day ; they are fed to spamassassin's learn, and I never see them again.
- hiding is boring
- it should be easy to contact me for feedback, idea's etc
- hiding only works if it is 100 percent successful ; it sets limits to what you can do
- fighting spam is better than hiding from it
Removing 10 spams a day is all it costs me to get the freedom to publish my email addresses everywhere I like. Small loss, big gain.
Jörgen Cederlöf runs the web of trust statistics and pathfinder (wotsap) project. Among other things, each day a fresh .wot file is published in an archive. Each wot containsThe set of keys is retrieved from the keyserver at http://wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net:11371/pks/, in close cooperation with Patrick Feisthammel.
- the key id's of the pgp keys in the strong set.
- for each key, the most recently selfsigned uid.
- for each key, a list of keys that signed the key
- for each signature, some trust info
The keyserver is connected with many other keyservers ; with special protocols these servers exchange new keys and signatures.
The data is refreshed every day from the wotsap archive. Near the bottom of each stats and paths page, you will find date/time when the data was last refreshed.A special program computes and stores (for each key)
The shortest paths are computed on the fly.
- the key's dist table, as shown on the key stats page
- the key's ranking
Sometimes the keyserver where the strong set is extracted is not entirely up-to-date. Please submit your public key to this keyserver.
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