Overview of spam from Infi.net

12 Aug 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 7 reports

date	posts	total	BI
23 Jul 2000	11	121	36.45	full headers
07 Jul 2000	15	128	43.43	full headers
09 Jun 2000	13	109	36.51	full headers
05 May 2000	10	118	33.34	full headers
21 Apr 2000	27	212	74.36	full headers
07 Jan 2000	21	63	36.37
03 Jan 2000	26	140	58.87

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 3 Jan 2000	123	891	319.33
Peak spam on 21 Apr 2000	27	212	74.36
Peak daily spam on 7 Jan 2000	5	15	9.09	(4-day average)
Average daily spam	0.5	3.7	1.30

full history also available

General information about Infi.net

No specific information available for Infi.net at this time. Contact Ed Falk If you would like to contribute.

To report spam, contact abuse@infi.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 Infi.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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