Overview of spam from Giganews.com

19 Jul 1999

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 14 reports

date	posts	total	BI
11 Sep 2000	88	243	139.85	full headers
23 Jul 2000	29	77	44.42	full headers
07 Jul 2000	28	42	32.47	full headers
23 Jun 2000	30	64	40.91	full headers
09 Jun 2000	126	566	263.39
19 May 2000	22	90	43.97
07 Apr 2000	23	96	46.36
25 Feb 2000	66	206	110.17
19 Jan 2000	20	61	32.89
14 Dec 1999	14	59	28.58
29 Nov 1999	24	63	36.42
09 Nov 1999	22	77	39.65
20 Oct 1999	70	337	152.58
18 Oct 1999	17	71	33.83

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 18 Oct 1999	579	2052	1045.49
Peak spam on 9 Jun 2000	126	566	263.39
Peak daily spam on 20 Oct 1999	35	168	76.29	(2-day average)
Average daily spam	1.7	6.0	3.08

full history also available

General information about Giganews.com

Added 14 May 1999.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies giganews.com as

exas Networking, Inc. (GIGANEWS-DOM)
   823 Congress Avenue, Suite 440
   Austin, TX 78701
   US

   Domain Name: GIGANEWS.COM

   Administrative Contact:
      Yokubaitis, Jonah Barron  (JY18) barron@TEXAS.NET
      (512) 427-1650 (FAX) (512) 427-1660
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Hostmaster  (HOS606-ORG)  hostmaster@TEXAS.NET
      (512) 427-1675, Fax- (512) 427-1660
   Billing Contact:
      Yokubaitis, Jonah Barron  (JY18)  barron@TEXAS.NET
      (512) 427-1650 (FAX) (512) 427-1660

Site history

19 July 1999: A major sporger is active at Giganews. This report includes that total.
19 July 1999: Giganews morphed their headers some time back, causing me to miss posts. This has been corrected.
14 May 1999: Added to tracking list.

To report spam, contact abuse@giganews.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 Giganews.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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