Overview of spam from Fastinet.net

5 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.

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General information about Fastinet.net

Added 30 Sept 1997. Fast Internet spam policy can be found at http://www.fastinet.net/support/policy.asp. The policy prohibits off-charter posts, spam, chain letters, binaries in non-binary groups, unauthorized cancels, header forgeries and mailbombing.

Fast Internet requests that complaints be first directed to the offending user or domain.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Fastinet.net as

SYSCACHING Corp. FASTINET-DOM
   1230 E. Washington St Suite #8
   Colton, CA 92324
   U.S.

   Domain Name: FASTINET.NET

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Nicklas, John JOHN@FASTINET.NET
      909-425-0620 (FAX) 909-370-1036

   Record last updated on 05-Jan-97.
   Record created on 23-Aug-96.
   Database last updated on 30-Sep-97 05:07:43 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   DNS1.FASTINET.NET            205.227.224.4
   DNS2.FASTINET.NET            205.227.224.7

Site history

30 Sept 1997: Added to tracking list.

To report spam, contact postmaster@fastinet.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 Fastinet.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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