Overview of spam from Laserlink.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 6 reports

date	posts	total	BI
23 Jun 2000	23	53	30.53	full headers
14 Mar 2000	32	135	60.24	full headers
03 Jan 2000	18	95	41.18	full headers
21 Dec 1999	17	72	32.81	full headers
30 Nov 1999	23	64	34.86	full headers
09 Nov 1999	14	102	37.09

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 9 Nov 1999	127	521	236.71
Peak spam on 14 Mar 2000	32	135	60.24
Peak daily spam on 3 Jan 2000	1	7	3.17	(13-day average)
Average daily spam	0.5	1.9	0.88

full history also available

General information about Laserlink.net

Added 4 May 1999 due to excessive porn spam in Alt.sexual.abuse.recovery. This may be a case of open server abuse by a UUNet dial-up user.

Laserlink.net is operated by real humans who give real replies. Their abuse department is responsible and responsive.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds
Sample Spam

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Laserlink.net as

Laser Link Network Services, Inc (LASERLINK2-DOM)
   108 Chesley Madison Bldg, Ste 108
   Media, PA 19317

   Domain Name: LASERLINK.NET

   Administrative Contact:
      Domain  (DO82-ORG)  domains@LASERLINK.NET
      610.566.2993, Fax- 610.566.9093
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Morin, Brian  (BM517)  brian@LASERLINK.NET
      610-566-2993 (FAX) 610-566-9093
   Billing Contact:
      Domain  (DO82-ORG)  domains@LASERLINK.NET
      610.566.2993

Site history

4 May 1999: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

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

UUNet

Sample Spam

Path: su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!nntp.primenet.com! howland.erols.net!newsfeed.tli.de!news-fra.pop.de!uunet!ams.uu.net! ffx.uu.net!in1.uu.net!news.laserlink.net!Hotmail.com From: Amanda@Hotmail.com Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery Subject: Cum SEE THE LESBIAN ACTION... Date: Monday, 03 May 1999 09:20:13 -0600 Organization: <no organization> Lines: 13 Message-ID: <03059909.2013@Hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 1cust89.tnt3.lancaster.ca.da.uu.net http://www.destinysplayground.com Live XXX Action!!!! CYBER SEX CHAT!!! HUGE SEARCHABLE IMAGE GALLERY 40 NEW PICS UPDATED DAILY SEX GAMES EROTIC STORIES XXX PERSONAL ADS XXX CHAT WITH VIDEO FEED ALL FOR FREE -------------- NO MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED --------------- NO B.S.---------------- COME SEE FOR YOURSELF, IT ONLY TAKES ONE CLICK TO FIND OUT AND IT'S GUARANTEED YOU'LL BOOKMARK THIS PAGE!!!!!!!!! http://www.destinysplayground.com

To report spam, contact abuse@laserlink.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 Laserlink.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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