Overview of spam from Mts.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 2 reports

date	posts	total	BI
28 Apr 2000	16	82	31.38	full headers
23 Nov 1999	187	2344	659.72	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 23 Nov 1999	203	2426	691.10
Peak spam on 28 Apr 2000	16	82	31.38
Peak daily spam on 28 Apr 2000	0	0	0.20	(156-day average)
Average daily spam	0.1	0.5	0.20

full history also available

General information about Mts.net

Mts.net has a live human answering abuse reports. Mts acts quickly to deal with problems.

Added 23 Nov 1999 due to massive spam from Saylor

Update: Mts has already closed the open relay which Saylor was exploiting. No spam has been seen since.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Sample Spam

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Mts.net as

Manitoba Telephone System (MTS3-DOM)
   P.O. Box 6666
   Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 3V6
   CA

   Domain Name: MTS.NET

   Administrative Contact:
      Friesen, Wes  (WF66) mtsdns@MTS.NET
      +1 (204) 784-6548
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Soprovich, Greg  (GS339) NetAdmin@MTS.NET
      204-784-6549
   Billing Contact:
      McGee, Rob  (RM10370) rob.mcgee@MTS.MB.CA
      1-204-784-6818

   Record last updated on 04-May-1998.
   Record created on 26-Apr-1995.
   Database last updated on 23-Nov-1999 13:34:44 EST.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   DNS1.MTS.NET                 205.200.16.65
   DNS2.MTS.NET                 205.200.16.69

Site history

24 Nov 1999: Added to tracking list.

Sample Spam

Path: news-out.uswest.net!uunet!ffx.uu.net!newsfeed.fast.net! howland.erols.net!newsfeed.cwix.com!news-in.mts.net!news1.mts.net! not-for-mail From: Xohu J. Yodufo <ukissita@mdyygo.de> Subject: Giant Nipples my jugs flow huge!!! Newsgroups: alt.sex.sm.fig,alt.sex.society, alt.sex.software.dumpsite.sex.leather.boink,alt.sex.sonja, alt.sex.sounds,alt.sex.startrek,alt.sex.stories,alt.sex.stories.bondage, alt.sex.stories.cuckold,alt.sex.stories.d,alt.sex.stories.gay, alt.sex.stories.hetro,alt.sex.stories.incest Lines: 569 Message-ID: <rfw_3.2523$m6.15269@news1.mts.net> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:02:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.160.2.11 X-Complaints-To: admin@mts.net X-Trace: news1.mts.net 943362135 142.160.2.11 (Tue, 23 Nov 1999 07:02:15 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 07:02:15 CST Organization: MTS Internet begin 755 HossChix942.jpg M_]C_X``02D9)1@`!`@$`2`!(``#_[0"X4&AO=&]S:&]P(#,N,``X0DE-`^T` M`````!``2`````$``0!(`````0`!.$))30/S```````(``````````$X0DE- [560 lines deleted] MP%Y@D@N&SZDU3"\J225U?5SP$R\I227/JXY4EY,DDI]9*07DR22GUL\!17DR -22GU9W=17E:22G__V25U ` end

To report spam, contact abuse@mts.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 Mts.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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