Overview of spam from BellAtlantic

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
28 Apr 2000	12	102	34.40	full headers
21 Apr 2000	64	69	65.45	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 30 Apr 1997	1164	17675	4495.71
Peak spam on 5 May 1997	462	7052	1787.21
Peak daily spam on 2 May 1997	201	2824	746.71	(2-day average)
Average daily spam	172.8	2540.2	656.12

full history also available

General information about BellAtlantic

Bell Atlantic's toll-free number is 1-800-475-7840. Choose option 1 and then 1 again.

Also known as gnilink.net.

17 April 2000: Spammer is spamming attacks on a greeting card site and advertisements for their competing site.

16 July 1997: LibidoX has joined Bell Atlantic.

8 July 1997: Bell Atlantic now holds the world single-day spam record: BI=15,653

7 July 1997: Bell Atlantic has blown all previous spam records completely out of the water. BI = 46,316. Full headers were over 19 megabytes, and are available in gzipped form for anybody who really wants to see them. Full headers report has been limited to 10,000 lines due to disk space limitations. I expect full UDP to be reinstated pretty soon if this keeps up.

1 July 1997: Bell Atlantic has finally responded. UDP is called off. See message <5p9469$c1c@feedme.news.iswest.net> for more info.

30 June 1997: UDP is underway.

25 June 1997: UDP is currently under discussion. See message <5ovjih$pdc@feedme.news.iswest.net>

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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 BellAtlantic.
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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