Overview of spam from Hknet.com

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 3 reports

date	posts	total	BI
23 Jun 2000	12	76	30.02	full headers
19 Jan 2000	19	63	32.83	full headers
16 Nov 1999	32	47	37.00	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 16 Nov 1999	63	186	99.85
Peak spam on 19 Jan 2000	19	63	32.83
Peak daily spam on 19 Jan 2000	0	0	0.51	(64-day average)
Average daily spam	0.1	0.6	0.29

full history also available

General information about Hknet.com

Added 30 Mar 1999 due to excessive porn spam in alt.sexual.abuse.recovery.

Site history
Netnews Feeds
Sample Spam

Site history

30 Mar 1999: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

hknet.com receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

UUNet

These sites have been added to the reporting list for hknet.com to keep them aware of the problem, and to suggest that they terminate their netnews feed with hknet.com until such time that hknet.com adopts an anti-spam policy and regains control of their servers.

Sample Spam

From: vsdvgr@asef.net Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery Subject: b i g b i g T I T S ..... w e t w e t P U S S I E S NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.67.252.89 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.67.252.89 Message-ID: <36fc4ab1.2@ruby.hknet.com> Date: 27 Mar 99 03:04:17 GMT Lines: 23 Path: denver-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com! su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!chicago-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com! news.gtei.net!cyclone.i1.net!uunet!ffx.uu.net!in4.uu.net! venus.hkstar.com!news2.hkt.net!ruby.hknet.com!202.67.252.89 hcsmdstwqfktrcxxhlxfeyyfukwhmxsrrfmctgshtyszqorhpkewtfbwdehvntlrdlznfrg begin 644 C:\My Documents\post\club100(100%).htm M/"%$3T-465!%($A434P@4%5"3$E#("(M+R]7,T,O+T141"!(5$U,(#0N,"!4 M<F%N<VET:6]N86PO+T5.(CX-"CQ(5$U,/@T*/$A%040^#0H@("`\345402!( M5%10+45154E6/2)#;VYT96YT+51Y<&4B($-/3E1%3E0](G1E>'0O:'1M;#L@ M8VAA<G-E=#UI<V\M.#@U.2TQ(CX-"B`@(#Q-151!($Y!344](D%U=&AO<B(@ M0T].5$5.5#TB1W)E9V]R>2!!=2(^#0H@("`\345402!.04U%/2)'14Y%4D%4 M3U(B($-/3E1%3E0](DUO>FEL;&$O-"XP."!;96Y=("A7:6XY-3L@22D@6TYE M='-C87!E72(^#0H@("`\5$E43$4^8VQU8C$P,"@Q,#`E*3PO5$E43$4^#0H\ M+TA%040^#0H\0D]$63X-"CQB;V1Y(&]N;&]A9#TB=VEN9&]W+F]P96XH)VAT M='`Z+R]W=W<N8V%S=&EN9RUC;W5C:"YC;VTO8V=I+6)I;B]J=W,O97!I+VIW M<RUT<F%C:RYC9VD_240]8V,Q.3@V)RDB/CPO8F]D>3X-"CPO0D]$63X-"CPO '2%1-3#X-"BYC ` end CPO '2%1-3#X-"BYC ` end

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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 Hknet.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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