Overview of spam from Grid.net

4 Sep 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 4 reports

date	posts	total	BI
09 Jun 2000	40	400	126.49	full headers
19 May 2000	134	1340	423.75	full headers
05 May 2000	66	660	208.71	full headers
28 Apr 2000	12	120	37.95	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 28 Apr 2000	252	2520	796.90
Peak spam on 19 May 2000	134	1340	423.75
Peak daily spam on 19 May 2000	9	95	30.27	(14-day average)
Average daily spam	5.7	57.1	18.07

full history also available

General information about Grid.net

Added 2 Sep 1997

Grid.net hosts pookies.com, a known rogue site. Grid is alleged to be rogue themselves.

Whois indicates that Grid.net is

GridNet International NETBLK-GRID-NET
   1000 Holcomb Woods Parkway Suite 342
   Roswell, GA 30072

   Netname: GRID-NET
   Netblock: 206.80.160.0 - 206.80.191.0
   Maintainer: GRID

   Coordinator:
      Conley, Thomas tc@GRID.NET
      770 518-5332 (FAX) 770 998-9096

   Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

   GRIDNET.COM                  206.80.160.1
   GRID.NET                     206.80.160.2

   ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE

   Record last updated on 28-Mar-96.
   Database last updated on 2-Sep-97 05:14:00 EDT.

To report spam, contact postmaster@Grid.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 Grid.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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