Complete history of Giganews.com

The following is a summary of all spam observed from Giganews.com since tracking began. Some samples encompass multiple days.

NOTE: Rahul.net suffered a disk crash on 13 Oct 1999. History information has been lost. These numbers may only reflect spam seen since 13 Oct 1999.

Date		Posts	Groups	BI	Days	Average

1999/10/18	   17	   71	   33.8
1999/10/20	   70	  337	  152.6	  2	   35.0	  168.5	   76.3
1999/11/9	   22	   77	   39.6	 20	    1.1	    3.9	    2.0
1999/11/29	   24	   63	   36.4	 20	    1.2	    3.1	    1.8
1999/12/14	   14	   59	   28.6	 15	    0.9	    3.9	    1.9
2000/1/19	   20	   61	   32.9	 36	    0.6	    1.7	    0.9
2000/2/25	   66	  206	  110.2	 37	    1.8	    5.6	    3.0
2000/4/7	   23	   96	   46.4	 41	    0.6	    2.3	    1.1
2000/5/19	   22	   90	   44.0	 42	    0.5	    2.1	    1.0
2000/6/9	  126	  566	  263.4	 21	    6.0	   27.0	   12.5
2000/6/23	   30	   64	   40.9	 14	    2.1	    4.6	    2.9
2000/7/7	   28	   42	   32.5	 14	    2.0	    3.0	    2.3
2000/7/23	   29	   77	   44.4	 16	    1.8	    4.8	    2.8
2000/9/11	   88	  243	  139.8	 50	    1.8	    4.9	    2.8

Total:		  579	 2052	 1045.5
average		    1.8	    6.3	    3.2

14 samples covering 328 days

Notes:

Date: Ending date of sample period. YY/MM/DD format.
Posts: Total number of articles identified as spam during that period.
Groups: Total number of newsgroups spammed.
BI: Breidbart Index
Days: Number of days encompassed by the sample period.
Average: Average daily spam during the sample period.

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