Overview of spam from Hostcomm.net

10 Nov 2005

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.

General information about Hostcomm.net

It is believed that Hostcomm is owned by or in partnership with Empire communications. See netnews article i "Link between poshnet.com and Middleton". In this article, it is noted that someone at Empire was logged into Poshnet as root, and that someone at Poshnet was logged into Hostcomm as root. Further, someone from Empire has been logged into pdxfiber.net.

To report spam, contact one or more of

• abuse@hostcomm.net
• abuse@pdxfiber.net
• abuse@verio.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 Hostcomm.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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