Received a mail from the PGP Global Directory server

Some people have received it ages ago, but mine only appeared today. Which isn't entirely unreasonable, given that there are thousands of PGP keys on the key servers.

In itself, the PGP global directory is a good idea. They want to have a directory of only active keys, instead of a directory containing all keys of all people all over the world, including those keys issued by people who just tried playing with pgp or gpg for two days and forgot about it, people who are dead and didn't issue a revocation certificate before their dead (or didn't have an expiry date on their key), etcetera.

Only it would've been nice had they actually thought about what they were doing.

Some of the people who received a mail from the PGP Global Directory already mentioned that the mail from the directory completely bypassed the PGP trust model, so it isn't actually something one should trust.

This one is even worse, though: I received a mail for a key with id 0x4B5A3DFD. This probably means nothing to you; but let me tell you that about nine months ago, my laptop was stolen, and that the key has been revoked ever since...

If they want to check whether keys are still active, they could at least have checked whether a key has some sort of revocation certificate on it before proceeding... idiots!