Overview of spam from Erols.com

26 May 1998

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 history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 1 May 1997	120	1599	426.83
Peak spam on 5 May 1997	83	957	277.76
Peak daily spam on 5 May 1997	27	319	92.59	(3-day average)
Average daily spam	26.2	343.5	92.19

full history also available

General information about Erols.com

Erols suffered from lax administration in 1996, and began to have problems with spammers. Current administration is very aggressive about disconnecting spammers, especially email spammers.

Erols' abuse administrator, Afterburner, is considered by many to be the very model of a modern abuse admin.

Site history

Site history

12 Sept 1997: adult-guide spammer disconnected.
15 Sept 1997: NUDESIGHTS spammer disconnected.

To report spam, contact abuse@erols.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 Erols.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.

Return to top | Return to spam summaries | complete history