Overview of spam from Cr.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

General information about Cr.com

Added 28 Oct 1997 after excessive porn spam in Alt.sexual.abuse.recovery. Cr.com is Charles River Data Systems (see below).

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies cr.com as

Charles River Data Systems CR2-DOM
   55 New York Avenue
   Framingham, MA 01701

   Domain Name: CR.COM

   Administrative Contact:
      Masek, Bill  BM102 masek@CR.COM
      (508) 626-1000
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Network Information and Support Center  PSI-NISC  hostinfo@psi.com
      (518) 283-8860
   Billing Contact:
      Masek, Bill  BM102  masek@CR.COM
      (508) 626-1000

   Record last updated on 20-Feb-97.
   Record created on 20-Apr-93.
   Database last updated on 28-Oct-97 05:46:53 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS.PSI.NET                   192.33.4.10
   NS2.PSI.NET                  38.8.50.2

Site history

28 Oct 1997: Added to tracking list.

To report spam, contact postmaster@cr.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 Cr.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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