Overview of spam from Idt.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 8 reports

date	posts	total	BI
09 Jun 2000	188	907	409.90	full headers
19 May 2000	155	774	345.47	full headers
21 Apr 2000	190	950	424.85	full headers
07 Apr 2000	822	4101	1832.86	full headers
04 Jan 2000	13	85	30.95	full headers
22 Nov 1999	16	95	32.15
09 Nov 1999	8	106	28.58
22 Oct 1999	19	79	33.67

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 30 Apr 1997	1644	11161	4045.14
Peak spam on 7 Apr 2000	822	4101	1832.86
Peak daily spam on 5 May 1997	46	712	166.61	(3-day average)
Average daily spam	1.4	9.4	3.47

full history also available

General information about Idt.net

Idt is International Discount Telecommunications. Although they are not actually rogue, they are fairly clueless, and are occasionally the source a great deal of spam.

This report includes spam generated by Middleton, who is hosted by Idt.

FLASH IDT has been sending their own spam! See this sample.

IDT Investigation reports can be found at http://www.idt.net/abuse/. Most incidents result in a warning.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds

Ownership & Contact Info

IDT may be reached by phone at 1-800-CALL-IDT.

whois indicates that IDT is

International Discount Telecommunications IDT2-DOM
   294 State Street
   Hackensack, NJ 07601
   US

   Domain Name: IDT.NET

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Internet Online Services noc@CORP.IDT.NET
      tel.: +1 (201) 928-2889 (Voice 24x7)  fax.: +1 (201) 928-0156


   Record last updated on 18-Oct-96.
   Record created on 31-Oct-94.
   Database last updated on 2-Sep-97 05:14:00 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS.IDT.NET                   198.4.75.100
   AUTH2.NS.IDT.NET             169.132.133.1
   NOC.IOS.COM                  198.4.75.69

Site history

28 Oct 1999: New Scientist magazine reports that Idt has blocked all British "co.uk" domains due to persistent porn spam. See Spam hits the fan
9 April 1999: Idt has disabled posting access to PSI dialups in order to stop Middleton from spamming. See netnews article Re: [CFD] UDP of IDT.NET for more.
10 Aug 1998: HotSexNow and Chickenshack have both joined IDT.
8 April 1998: Idt has begun sending their own spam.

NetNews Feeds

IDT receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

To report spam, contact abuse@idt.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 Idt.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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