Overview of spam from Gte.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 6 reports

date	posts	total	BI
23 Jul 2000	48	51	49.24	full headers
23 Jun 2000	81	391	177.38	full headers
09 Jun 2000	101	353	179.93	full headers
25 Feb 2000	65	145	93.73	full headers
29 Nov 1999	18	75	35.65	full headers
03 Nov 1999	100	118	105.35

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 14 Mar 1997	9022	23487	36922.11
Peak spam on 17 Mar 1997	2361	2361	9837.28
Peak daily spam on 27 Mar 1997	1312	1312	5713.29
Average daily spam	7.3	19.1	29.85

full history also available

General information about Gte.net

GTE held the world internet spam record (BI > 9000 in one day) until July of 1997. They have since gotten things relatively under control.

GTE has purchased BBN. BBN now controls the domain gte.net. BBN and GTE are still tracked seperately.

9 Aug 1999: A major rogue cancel attack is underway from GTE.

20 April 1999: Now hosting Media One

To report spam, contact abuse@gte.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 Gte.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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