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Message-ID: <1068604860.397.3.camel@localhost>
From: peter at ucsc.edu (Peter Moody)
Subject: a PGP signed mail? Has to be spam!

> Guys(and girls), the situation sucks. What do you think? And, most important 
> of all, do you see any way to fight this behaviour? Because honestly, I 
> don't. 

I frequently get messages from virus filters telling me that my
attachment (signature.asc) has been removed as it's thought to contain a
virus.  For the virus end, it'll take time for people to start coding
proper virus scanners that don't recognize .asc as a virus.

As far as signed mail getting picked up by spam filters, I would think
that talking to the admins would be your best bet.  But again, in time
spam filters will recognize that pgp signature does not equal spam.

Regards,
-Peter

-- 
Peter Moody                             <peter@...c.edu>
Information Security Administrator      831/459.5409
Communications and Technology Services. http://mustard.ucsc.edu/pubkey
UC, Santa Cruz.
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