Overview of spam from AISI

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

General information about AISI

Added 3 Sept 1997. Advertisements are for porn sites hosted by AISI.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Advanced Internet Services as

Advanced Internet Services NETBLK-AISI-BLK-206-84
   4963 Stahl Rd., Suite 100
   San Antonio, TX 78217
   USA

   Netname: AISI-BLK-206-84
   Netblock: 206.84.148.0 - 206.84.148.255

   Coordinator:
      Lindley, Robert rlindley@AISI.NET
      210.599.0799 (FAX) 210.599.0869

   Record last updated on 29-Sep-96.
   Database last updated on 2-Sep-97 05:14:00 EDT.

Site history

3 Sept 1997: Added to spam tracking list.

10 Sept 1997: Automated reports were accidentally mailed to ais.net instead of aisi.net. My apologies to ais for the error. There is no connection between ais.net and aisi.net.

12 Sept 1997: AISI informs me that they have disabled posting permissions of the spammer.

15 Sept 1997: Supernews admins inform me that the AISI spammers are attempting to relay spam off of Supernews computers.

To report spam, contact postmaster@aisi.net

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 AISI.
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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