Overview of spam from Best.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 8 reports

date	posts	total	BI
11 Sep 2000	12	84	31.53	full headers
21 Apr 2000	14	136	43.56	full headers
25 Feb 2000	18	173	54.37	full headers
03 Jan 2000	15	91	34.11	full headers
22 Nov 1999	15	114	40.19
03 Nov 1999	17	109	38.34
22 Oct 1999	13	108	35.14
18 Oct 1999	10	103	30.83

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 18 Oct 1999	114	918	308.07
Peak spam on 25 Feb 2000	18	173	54.37
Peak daily spam on 22 Oct 1999	3	27	8.79	(4-day average)
Average daily spam	0.3	2.5	0.85

full history also available

General information about Best.com

Added back to tracking list 30 Mar 1998 due to "trademark" spammer.

Site history

Site history

13 Nov 1999: Best's parent company, Verio, has been blocked by RMI due to persistent spam. It is not known at this time if Best's mail servers are effected. See Denver Post article E-mail 'spat' being settled at e-snail's pace
30 Mar 1998: Added back to tracking list.

To report spam, contact abuse@best.com

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 Best.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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