full-disclosure - SPAM with a PGP signature?

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From: jm at jmason.org (Justin Mason)
Subject: SPAM with a PGP signature? 

Pamela Patterson writes:
>On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 13:54, KF wrote:
>> Has anyone noticed alot of spam coming in recently with pgp sigs 
>> attached? What would be the benefit of doing that?
>
>Spamassasin deducts a couple of points from the Spam Score of a message
>if it's PGP signed.  It wouln't surprise me if other spam filters do as
>well.

Yeah, it used to.  Not any more, though, since it's being exploited.

If you check, often those PGP sigs are the same cut-and-pasted string
btw...

--j.