full-disclosure - SPAM with a PGP signature?

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From: florian.huber at mnet-online.de (Florian Huber)
Subject: SPAM with a PGP signature?

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:54:11 -0400
KF <dotslash@...soft.com> wrote:

> Has anyone noticed alot of spam coming in recently with pgp sigs 
> attached? What would be the benefit of doing that?

Some spamfilters (like SpamAssassin) condsider pgp-signed as non-spam.
(It's not that simple, i should say, they lower the score the mail has
during the spam detection process)

HTH