Overview of spam from Mxol.com

3 Nov 1997

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

General information about Mxol.com

Added 27 Aug 1997 when Chris Ferri moved there.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Site history

30 Oct 1997: Discussion of UDP is underway. Visit newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.usenet and find the articles entitled "report from Spacelab, ya gotta read this" for more information.
31 Oct 1997: Full UDP has been announced.
3 Nov 1997: Spacelab has terminated its spammer, counts are way down. UDP has been lifted.

Ownership & Contact Info

According to whois, mxol.com is

Matrix Online Media , Inc. MXOL-DOM
   60 Spring St., #1208
   New York, NY  10012

   Domain Name: MXOL.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Hostmaster dnr@SPACELAB.NET
      (212)633-7981

   Record last updated on 11-Jan-97.
   Record created on 16-Aug-95.
   Database last updated on 3-Oct-97 05:10:42 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.MXOL.COM                 206.42.130.2
   NS1.AGIS.NET                 205.137.48.5

The fact that they're hosted by Agis is cause for worry.

To report spam, contact postmaster@mxol.com

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 Mxol.com.
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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