Overview of spam from Atlantic.net

30 Apr 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 3 reports

date	posts	total	BI
11 Sep 2000	28	85	46.94	full headers
07 Jul 2000	55	125	82.55	full headers
19 May 2000	48	122	75.05	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 19 May 2000	131	332	204.54
Peak spam on 7 Jul 2000	55	125	82.55
Peak daily spam on 7 Jul 2000	1	2	1.68	(49-day average)
Average daily spam	0.7	1.8	1.13

full history also available

General information about Atlantic.net

Bulk of spam consists of ads for a porn site. Subject lines contain image names to make them look like they're not spam, but there are no images in the message bodies.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Sample Spam

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Atlantic.net as

Registrant:
Atlantic.Net Internet Services (ATLANTICNET4-DOM)
   2815 NW 13th Street
   Suite 201
   Gainesville, FL 32609
   US

   Domain Name: ATLANTICNET.NET

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      DNS Admin  (TJ2-ORG) dns-admin@ATLANTIC.NET
      352-336-7716, Fax- 352-375-2702
   Billing Contact:
      DNS Admin  (TJ2-ORG)  dns-admin@ATLANTIC.NET
      352-336-7716, Fax- 352-375-2702

   Record last updated on 23-Mar-99.
   Record created on 23-Mar-99.
   Database last updated on 30-Apr-99 15:41:15 EDT.

Site history

Sample Spam

Path: su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com! news.gtei.net!news-xfer.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com! news-xfer.atlantic.net!news1.atlantic.net!hsxdfsd.com From: kf@hsxdfsd.com Newsgroups: alt.sex.wanted,alt.sex.wanted.models,alt.sex.watersports, alt.sex.wizards,alt.sex.women Subject: This is Amanda - young thin blonde with a tight little ass amanda07.jpg (1/1) 88717 Message-ID: <30049914.5928@hsxdfsd.com> Organization: babes in the round Reply-To: freddiemerc@hotmail.com Lines: 3 Date: Friday, 30 Apr 1999 14:59:28 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.208.50.54 X-Trace: news1.atlantic.net 925509583 209.208.50.54 (Fri, 30 Apr 1999 17:59:43 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 17:59:43 EDT 12 FREE thumbnailed TEEN Pics (Updated Daily): http://207.140.166.215<3ehGis(oL

To report spam, contact abuse@atlantic.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 Atlantic.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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