Overview of spam from Cais.com
9 May 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
General information about Cais.com
The bulk of the spam coming from Cais is from new-world-erotica.com.
These posts are sent to less than ten newsgroup and seem to contain
unique images. I am not sure whether or not to classify this as spam
or not. If any readers of the newsgroups to which these are posted would
like to send comments, please do so.
To report spam, contact postmaster@cais.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 Cais.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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