Overview of spam from Ao.net

6 Jul 1999

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 4 reports

date	posts	total	BI
07 Apr 2000	14	61	28.12	full headers
29 Oct 1999	32	184	75.88	full headers
20 Oct 1999	15	90	36.74	full headers
18 Oct 1999	23	140	56.72	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 18 Oct 1999	84	475	197.46
Peak spam on 29 Oct 1999	32	184	75.88
Peak daily spam on 20 Oct 1999	7	45	18.37	(2-day average)
Average daily spam	0.4	1.9	0.82

full history also available

General information about Ao.net

Added 7 June 1999. AO stands for "Access Orlando".

Ao.net has a responsive and effective abuse department run by real humans. They are currently having trouble with a repeat spammer using multiple credit card numbers.

UDATE: The repeat spammer has been identified by Access Orlando. This may be the last of this spammer.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies ao.net as

@MW Communications, Inc. D/B/A Access Orlando (AO3-DOM)
   2875 S. Orange Avenue, Suite 500/600
   Orlando, FL 32806
   USA

   Domain Name: AO.NET

   Administrative Contact:
      McGinn, L Alan  (LAM26) amcginn@AO.NET
      407/895-1200 (FAX) 407/895-2652
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Center, Network Operations  (NOC65) noc@AO.NET
      (407) 895-1200 (FAX) (407) 895-2652
   Billing Contact:
      Wong, Michael  (MW3020) mwong@AO.NET
      407/895-1200 (FAX) 407/895-2652

   Record last updated on 10-Mar-97.
   Record created on 13-Oct-95.
   Database last updated on 7-Jun-99 08:10:59 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   DNS1.ACCESSORL.NET           205.244.242.10
   DNS2.ACCESSORL.NET           205.244.242.20

Site history

7 June 1999: Added to tracking list.
25 June 1999: Access Online reports that they've finally tracked down their repeat spammer.

To report spam, contact abuse@ao.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 Ao.net.
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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