Overview of spam from Abac.com

15 Feb 2006

Note: Automated spam monitoring stopped several years ago. These web pages are maintained for historical reasons. Some may be updated from time to time as news about the individual sites becomes available.

No spam today

Overview of last 1 reports

date	posts	total	BI
16 Dec 1999	27	48	35.70	full headers

full history also available

General information about Abac.com

Added 28 May 1998 when Andrew Chandler started spamming from their servers. Abac has since disconnected Chandler.

Abac.com also once hosted the Special-FX porn spammer. This site has also been disconnected, and has moved to UUNet.

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Abac.com as

Abacus America Inc (ABAC2-DOM)
   5266 Eastgate Mall
   San Diego, CA 92121

   Domain Name: ABAC.COM

   Administrative Contact:
      Hostmaster  (HO720-ORG)  hostmaster@ABAC.NET
      619-458-0490, Fax- 619-450-0567
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Administrator, DNS  (AD384-ORG)  dns@ABAC.COM
      619-458-0490, Fax- 619-450-0567
   Billing Contact:
      Billing  (BI493-ORG)  billing@ABAC.COM
      619-458-0490, Fax- 619-450-0567

   Record last updated on 03-Apr-98.
   Record created on 26-Apr-95.
   Database last updated on 28-May-98 03:57:52 EDT.

Site history

29 Sept 1999: Abacus has disabled access from BBN/MegaPOP.

27 Sept 1999: Tom Saylor has moved to Abacus.
12 Aug 1998: Tom Gartman has moved to Abacus.
28 May 1998: Added to tracking list.

To report spam, contact one or more of

A complete history may also be available.

General notes:

Only a small subset of usenet (261 groups) was sampled. Only articles that hadn't been cancelled yet were counted. Actual spam may have been much greater.
Heuristics that detect single-posted articles are, by their very nature, somewhat shaky. Innocent articles may be tagged as spam because they share certain characteristics or keywords with actual spam. In particular, a posted spam complaint that includes the spam in its entirety will very often be identified as spam.
Some posts may be forgeries intended to look like they came from Abac.com.
The first entry in the history file is not used to compute peak or average spam counts, as this entry covers an unknown number of days. This may cause an apparent disreprency between spam totals and spam averages.

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