Overview of spam from Iadfw.net

13 Jul 1999

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
11 Sep 2000	44	111	67.10	full headers
07 Jul 2000	55	113	77.67	full headers
09 Jun 2000	30	30	30.00	full headers
14 Mar 2000	46	78	56.12	full headers
12 Jan 2000	29	55	36.99
20 Oct 1999	13	77	31.63

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 20 Oct 1999	217	464	299.51
Peak spam on 7 Jul 2000	55	113	77.67
Peak daily spam on 7 Jul 2000	1	4	2.77	(28-day average)
Average daily spam	0.6	1.2	0.82

full history also available

General information about Iadfw.net

Added 28 April 1999 due to rape porn spam in talk.rape.

Iadfw.net is the same as, or closely associated with airmail.net.

Iadfw.net may be a rogue site. Complaints should be Cc'd to their upstream providers.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds
Sample Spam

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Iadfw.net as

Internet America (IADFW-DOM)
   350 N. St. Paul, Suite #3000
   Dallas, TX 75201
   US

   Domain Name: IADFW.NET

   Administrative Contact:
      Davis, Doug  (DD344) cto@AIRMAIL.NET
      214.979.9009
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      NOC, IA  (IN167)  noc@AIRMAIL.NET
      214.861.2577
   Billing Contact:
      Chaney, Jim  (JC12164)  cfo@AIRMAIL.NET
      214.861.2553 (FAX) 214.861.2663

   Record last updated on 30-Nov-98.
   Record created on 09-Jan-95.
   Database last updated on 28-Apr-99 12:59:04 EDT.

Site history

28 April 1999: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

Iadfw.net receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

airnews.net (netnews feed)
bbnplanet.net (internet connectivity)

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

Sample Spam

To report spam, contact one or more of

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 Iadfw.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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