Overview of spam from iStar

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 history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 1 May 1997	26	363	94.77
Peak spam on 5 May 1997	20	274	71.76
Peak daily spam on 5 May 1997	5	68	17.94	(4-day average)
Average daily spam	5.0	68.5	17.94

full history also available

General information about iStar

iStar.net is

iSTAR internet Inc. (ISTAR2-DOM)
250 Albert Street, Suite 202
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6M1
Canada

Mail to postmaster@istar.net bounces in violation of RFCs which require that this be a valid address.

Site history

3 Sept 1997: EscortGuide has started spamming through iStar.

To report spam, contact abuse@istar.ca

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 iStar.
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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