Overview of spam from CrawDat.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 CrawDat.com

Added 25 June 1998 due to massive porn spams injected from UUNet. Mail to postmaster@crawdat.com bounces with "Invalid final deliveray userid: postmaster@LOCALHOST", in violation of RFC 822 which requires that postmaster be a valid mail address.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds

Ownership & Contact Info

Path: lines contain "206.240.74.67" where they should contain the name of the site. This is probably due to misconfigured news software at crawdat.com.

Whois identifies crawdat.com as

Crawfish Data (CRAWDAT-DOM)
   605 2nd Ave N. Coursquare Towers Suite 5
   Columbus, MS 39701
   US

   Domain Name: CRAWDAT.COM

   Administrative Contact:
      Head,  Steve  (HS32-ORG) postmaster@CRAWDAT.COM
      601-343-5902
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Head, Steve  (HS33-ORG)  postmaster@CRAWDAT.COM
      601-343-5902
   Billing Contact:
      Head, Steve  (HS33-ORG)  postmaster@CRAWDAT.COM
      601-343-5902

   Record last updated on 02-Jul-97.
   Record created on 14-Sep-96.
   Database last updated on 25-Jun-98 04:14:22 EDT.

Site history

25 June 1998: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

crawdat.com receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

BBNPlanet

These sites have been added to the reporting list for crawdat.com to keep them aware of the problem, and to suggest that they terminate their netnews feed with crawdat.com until such time that crawdat.com adopts an anti-spam policy and regains control of their servers.

To report spam, contact one or more of

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 CrawDat.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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