Overview of spam from Bcandid.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 15 reports

date	posts	total	BI
07 Apr 2000	116	717	279.02	full headers
14 Mar 2000	307	1817	728.23	full headers
25 Feb 2000	292	1447	612.40	full headers
26 Jan 2000	421	4164	1321.21	full headers
24 Jan 2000	417	3635	1194.67	full headers
19 Jan 2000	108	699	258.84
12 Jan 2000	216	1961	636.67
07 Jan 2000	26	160	61.29
03 Jan 2000	2338	22657	7235.55
21 Dec 1999	113	785	288.18
17 Dec 1999	26	85	41.47
09 Dec 1999	36	173	73.17
06 Dec 1999	43	102	59.88
03 Dec 1999	27	96	47.83
30 Nov 1999	12	93	33.02

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 29 Oct 1999	5471	43910	15054.61
Peak spam on 3 Jan 2000	2338	22657	7235.55
Peak daily spam on 26 Jan 2000	210	2082	660.61	(2-day average)
Average daily spam	32.1	258.3	88.30

full history also available

General information about Bcandid.com

Added 28 Oct 1999 due to excessive Tom Saylor porn spams in rec.nude.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Sample Spam

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Bcandid as

bCandid, Inc. (BCANDID2-DOM)
   5744 Central Ave, Suite 100
   Boulder, CO 80301
   US

   Domain Name: BCANDID.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact, Billing Contact:
      bCandid DNS Administrator  (BD1757-ORG) dns@BCANDID.COM
      303-545-5550, Fax- 303-545-5551, Fax- - 303-545-5551

   Record last updated on 21-Oct-1999.
   Record created on 22-Feb-1999.
   Database last updated on 27-Oct-1999 10:11:19 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS3.BCANDID.COM              209.44.33.126
   NS2.BCANDID.COM              206.132.58.117
   NS1.BCANDID.COM              206.132.11.116

Site history

24 Jan 2000: Tom Saylor now spamming.
6 Dec 1999: Massive cancel attack from bcandid this week. Most likely from Hipcrime.
28 Oct 1999: Added to tracking list.

Sample Spam

Path: news-out.uswest.net!newsfeed.cwix.com!gw12.nn.bcandid.com! gate.bCandid.com!hub12.nn.bcandid.com!typ12.nn.bcandid.com.POSTED! not-for-mail From: IheZiemt <ltykeliaw@bi6dgfoote.de> Subject: Naked young pussies-stuffed Newsgroups: alt.sex.startrek,alt.sex.stories,alt.sex.stories.bondage, alt.sex.stories.cuckold,alt.sex.stories.d,alt.sex.stories.gay, alt.sex.stories.hetro,alt.sex.stories.incest Lines: 831 Message-ID: <xt%R3.7415$YB4.51611@typ12.nn.bcandid.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.36.32.15 X-Trace: typ12.nn.bcandid.com 941130717 216.36.32.15 (Thu, 28 Oct 1999 13:11:57 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 13:11:57 EDT Organization: bCandid - Powering the world's discussions - http://bCandid.com Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 17:11:57 GMT begin 755 Peachix306.JPG [826-line image deleted; contained an embedded ad for World-premiere.com] end

To report spam, contact abuse@Bcandid.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 Bcandid.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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