Overview of spam from Gate.net

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

Overview of last 8 reports

date	posts	total	BI
09 Jun 2000	14	80	32.10	full headers
25 Feb 2000	198	812	394.91	full headers
24 Jan 2000	31	151	67.54	full headers
03 Jan 2000	29	203	70.16	full headers
21 Dec 1999	10	124	34.64	full headers
14 Dec 1999	15	90	35.48
16 Nov 1999	14	112	37.43
20 Oct 1999	17	116	39.64

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 30 Apr 1997	358	2119	822.14
Peak spam on 25 Feb 2000	198	812	394.91
Peak daily spam on 25 Feb 2000	6	25	12.34	(32-day average)
Average daily spam	0.3	1.6	0.66

full history also available

General information about Gate.net

CyberGate has a strict policy about spam, but is becoming overwhelmed by repeat spammers. CyberGate admins seem to be on the ball.

In other news, CyberGate has been purchased by ACSI. This may adversely effect CyberGate's policies.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Gate.net as

CyberGate Internet Technologies GATE2-DOM
   1301 West Newport Center Drive
   Deerfield Beach, Florida 33442
   USA

   Domain Name: GATE.NET

   Administrative Contact:
      Administrator, CyberGate Network netadm@GATE.NET
      954-429-8080
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      CyberGate DNS Administrator dnsadm@GATE.NET
      954-429-8080, Fax- 954-429-8001
   Billing Contact:
      CyberGate DNS Administrator dnsadm@GATE.NET
      954-429-8080, Fax- 954-429-8001

   Record last updated on 11-Apr-97.
   Record created on 08-Oct-93.
   Database last updated on 8-Sep-97 04:37:06 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS.GATE.NET                  199.227.0.9
   NS2.GATE.NET                 199.227.0.20
   NS1.SPRINTLINK.NET           204.117.214.10
   NS2.SPRINTLINK.NET           199.2.252.10
   NS3.SPRINTLINK.NET           204.97.212.10

Site history

5 Nov 1997: CyberGate has recently acquired another ISP, causing high spam counts while they integrate the new customers.

21 April 1998: Kenny Schaeffer now spamming from Gate.net

To report spam, contact abuse@gate.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 Gate.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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