Overview of spam from Megsinet.net

17 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 11 reports

date	posts	total	BI
11 Sep 2000	450	905	630.95	full headers
23 Jul 2000	158	380	243.34	full headers
07 Jul 2000	110	345	192.95	full headers
23 Jun 2000	244	690	405.88	full headers
09 Jun 2000	1392	4172	2407.27
19 May 2000	538	1608	928.96
05 May 2000	226	684	392.96
28 Apr 2000	262	890	478.41
21 Apr 2000	276	917	500.71
07 Apr 2000	42	82	56.64
01 Nov 1999	27	40	31.20

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 1 Nov 1999	3725	10713	6269.27
Peak spam on 9 Jun 2000	1392	4172	2407.27
Peak daily spam on 9 Jun 2000	66	198	114.63	(21-day average)
Average daily spam	11.8	34.0	19.87

full history also available

General information about Megsinet.net

Formerly MegsInet, now known as CoreComm.net.

Added 27 Jan 1998 due to excessive porn spam in Alt.sexual.abuse.recovery.

Corecomm has an abuse policy with teeth, but do not seem to enforce it.

Currently (Aug 2000) hosting Repsis, Nardini, Gartman, Saylor, Offshore ISP and creditcardsystems.net.

Email from Corecomm may be blocked with this procmail recipe:

	:0:
	* ^Received:.*\[216\.214\.
	$TRASH

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Megsinet number is 888-233-1144.

Site history

20 July 2000: Now hosting Repsis
6 April 1999: MegsInet now has an abuse department.
22 Nov 1998: Megsinet is now the source of massive email spam. Complaints are going unanswered.
4 Aug 1998: Kenny Schaefer is now spamming from MegsInet
27 Jan 1998: Added to tracking list.

To report spam, contact abuse@megsinet.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 Megsinet.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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