Overview of spam from Flashnet

16 Jun 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

Overview of last 8 reports

date	posts	total	BI
11 Sep 2000	75	95	81.42	full headers
09 Jun 2000	15	75	32.39	full headers
07 Apr 2000	41	246	100.43	full headers
14 Mar 2000	26	71	39.05	full headers
25 Feb 2000	21	99	43.74
12 Jan 2000	14	77	32.39
22 Nov 1999	28	89	48.10
29 Oct 1999	17	72	32.94

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 29 Oct 1999	237	824	410.46
Peak spam on 7 Apr 2000	41	246	100.43
Peak daily spam on 7 Apr 2000	1	10	4.37	(23-day average)
Average daily spam	0.7	2.4	1.19

full history also available

General information about Flashnet

Added 16 June 1997

To report spam, contact postmaster@flash.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 Flashnet.
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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