Overview of spam from Ici.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

General information about Ici.net

Added 16 April 1998. "Ici" stands for the Internet Connection Inc.. Bulk of spam consists of porn ads for the following:

4q2.com
Morgan-Hill spammer hosted by Crl
City69
college-girls.com (Brant Pickard)
4q2.net/xtczone.com

ICI.net is possibly rogue. Mail to news@ici.net bounces.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds

Ownership & Contact Info

Ici.net has a homepage at www.ici.net. Their AUP is at http://www.ici.net/legal.html.

Whois identifies Ici.net as

The Internet Connection, Inc. ICI4-DOM
   Brookside Office Park, Suite #6
   272 Chauncy Street
   Mansfield, MA 02048
   US

   Domain Name: ICI.NET

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      NOC, iCi  CW142 noc@ICI.NET
      508-261-0800 (FAX) 508-261-0430
   Billing Contact:
      NOC, iCi  CW142  noc@ICI.NET
      508-261-0800 (FAX) 508-261-0430

   Record last updated on 08-Dec-97.
   Record created on 01-Feb-95.
   Database last updated on 16-Apr-98 03:56:41 EDT.

Site history

29 July 1998: 4q2 spammer starts spamming, advertising porn site hosted at UUNet.
16 April 1998: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

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

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

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 Ici.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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