Overview of spam from BellSouth.net

8 Sep 1997

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 1 reports

date	posts	total	BI
07 Apr 2000	22	73	39.69	full headers

full history also available

General information about BellSouth.net

Added 6 June 97. Bellsouth admins seem to be very responsive. Bellsouth has an aggressive anti-spam policy combined with fines for repeat offenders.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Bellsouth as

BellSouth Telecommunications BELLSOUTH2-DOM
   E8B1 3535 Colonnade Parkway
   Birmingham, Alabama 35243

   Domain Name: BELLSOUTH.COM

   Administrative Contact:
      Hood, Alex alex.hood@BELLSOUTH.COM
      (205)-977-5892
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Richards, K Michael mike_richards@BSCC.BLS.COM
      770-604-6422 (FAX) 770-604-6879

   Record last updated on 08-Jan-97.
   Record created on 12-Apr-95.
   Database last updated on 8-Sep-97 04:37:06 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.IWEB.NET                 155.229.39.1
   NS2.IWEB.NET                 155.229.39.3

Site history

6 June 1997: Added to tracking list.
8 July 1997: Bell South has implemented an auto-responder.
8 Sept 1997: Spam levels have suddenly shot up.

To report spam, contact abuse@bellsouth.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 BellSouth.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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