Overview of spam from Media_One

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.

Overview of last 14 reports

Overview of history

full history also available

General information about Media_One

Media 1 is connected through verio.net. The contact address given below in the whois output is bogus.

Currently forging the domain name Media21.com in the headers. It is believed that the real Media21.com is innocent.

Media 1 is the same as, or associated with LibidoX

Disconnected by e.spire in December, 1997.

• Ownership & Contact Info
• Site history
• Netnews Feeds
• Sample Spam

Media One NETBLK-MEDIAONE2
   4400 140th Ave. N., #170
   Clearwater, Fl 34622
   US

   Netname: MEDIAONE2
   Netblock: 209.12.183.0 - 209.12.183.255

   Coordinator:
      Abad, David d_abad@CONKNET.COM
      (603)588-2177

   Record last updated on 07-Jul-97.
   Database last updated on 2-Sep-97 05:14:00 EDT.

Whois identifies Media21.com as

WEEDN FAMILY TRUST (MEDIA57-DOM)
   c/o portofino america inc. 6 el paseo
   SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101
   US

   Domain Name: MEDIA21.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      WEEDN FAMILY TRUST  (WF67-ORG)  no.valid.email@WORLDNIC.NET
      8058849626, Fax- 8058840172
   Billing Contact:
      WEEDN FAMILY TRUST  (WF67-ORG)  no.valid.email@WORLDNIC.NET
      8058849626, Fax- 8058840172

   Record last updated on 13-May-98.
   Record created on 13-May-98.
   Database last updated on 18-Apr-99 12:28:48 EDT.

Whois indicates that pornofthemonth is

Registrant:
DUNCAN, ALLAN (PORNOFTHEMONTHCLUB-DOM)
   P.O. BOX 24 B 19
   LOS ANGELES, CA 90024
   US

   Domain Name: PORNOFTHEMONTHCLUB.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      DUNCAN, ALLAN  (AD7265)  no.valid.email@WORLDNIC.NET
      310 477 0104
   Billing Contact:
      DUNCAN, ALLAN  (AD7265)  no.valid.email@WORLDNIC.NET
      310 477 0104

   Record last updated on 28-Mar-99.
   Record created on 09-Mar-99.
   Database last updated on 12-Apr-99 19:00:42 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS.QUIK.COM                  205.162.86.17
   VENUS.SUPERSTORE.COM         205.162.86.1

• cwix.com
• verio.net

These sites have been added to the reporting list for Media1 to keep them aware of the problem, and to suggest that they terminate their netnews feed with Media1 until such time that Media1 adopts an anti-spam policy and regains control of their servers.

To report spam, contact one or more of

• postmaster@media1.net
• abuse@verio.net
• abuse@gtei.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 Media_One.
• 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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