Overview of spam from Bbnplanet.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 2 reports

date	posts	total	BI
11 Sep 2000	200	964	435.73	full headers
26 Jan 2000	24	63	35.32	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 26 Jan 2000	224	1027	471.05
Peak spam on 11 Sep 2000	200	964	435.73
Peak daily spam on 11 Sep 2000	0	4	1.91	(228-day average)
Average daily spam	0.9	4.2	1.91

full history also available

General information about Bbnplanet.com

Added 13 Mar 1998

BBN has been purchased by GTE and now controls the domain gte.net. BBN and GTE are still tracked seperately.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies BBN as

Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBNPLANET-DOM)
   10 Moulton Street
   Cambridge, MA 02138

   Domain Name: BBNPLANET.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      BBN Network Operations Center  (BNOC) ops@BBNPLANET.COM
      800-632-7638, Fax- 781-262-6351
   Billing Contact:
      AP, GTEI Domain  (GDA35) domain-bill@GTEI.NET
      800-632-7638 (FAX) 617-873-6012

Site history

Jan 2000: BBN is hosting Tom Saylor.
19 Oct 1999: BBN is now taking action against spammers. Discussion of UDP has ended.
13 Oct 1999: Discussion of UDP has begun due to persistent spamming by Tom Saylor from BBNPlanet dialups. See netnews article [RFD] BBNPlanet UDP Proposal: A Request for Remedial Action
13 Mar 1998: Added to tracking list.

To report spam, contact abuse@bbnplanet.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 Bbnplanet.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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