Overview of spam from Netscapeonline.co.uk

9 Sep 1999

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 4 reports

date	posts	total	BI
09 Jun 2000	13	85	31.57	full headers
14 Mar 2000	21	60	31.34	full headers
17 Nov 1999	22	35	25.47	full headers
20 Oct 1999	22	78	37.10	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 20 Oct 1999	78	258	125.48
Peak spam on 9 Jun 2000	13	85	31.57
Peak daily spam on 17 Nov 1999	0	1	0.91	(28-day average)
Average daily spam	0.2	0.8	0.38

full history also available

General information about Netscapeonline.co.uk

Added 9 Sept 1999 due to excessive porn spam in rec.nude.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds
Sample Spam

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies netscapeonline.co.uk as


  inetnum:     194.200.20.0 - 194.200.20.63
  netname:     ICLD16-1-UUNET-0
  descr:       ICL
  country:     GB
  admin-c:     AS7363-RIPE
  tech-c:      AS7363-RIPE
  status:      ASSIGNED PA
  mnt-by:      AS1849-MNT
  changed:     webserv@uk.uu.net 19990618
  source:      RIPE

  route:       194.200.0.0/14
  descr:       PIPEX-BLOCK4-7
  origin:      AS1849
  hole:        194.201.253.0/24
  hole:        194.202.0.0/22
  hole:        194.202.4.0/23
  hole:        194.203.46.0/24
  hole:        194.203.192.0/23
  hole:        194.203.194.0/24
  hole:        194.203.247.0/24
  remarks:     UUNET UK filter inbound on prefixes longer than /24
  remarks:     Please send abuse notification to abuse@uk.uu.net
  notify:      routing@uk.uu.net
  mnt-by:      AS1849-MNT
  changed:     tonyb@uk.uu.net 19980330
  changed:     tonyb@uk.uu.net 19981124
  changed:     tonyb@uk.uu.net 19990315
  source:      RIPE

  person:      Andrew Stentiford
  address:     ICL
  address:     Westfields House
  address:     West Avenue
  address:     Kidsgrove
  address:     Stoke-On-Trent
  address:     ST7 1TL
  address:     GB
  phone:       +44
  e-mail:      andy@icl.net
  nic-hdl:     AS7363-RIPE
  mnt-by:      AS1849-MNT
  changed:     webserv@uk.uu.net 19990618
  source:      RIPE

Site history

9 Sept 1999: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

netscapeonline.co.uk receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

icl.net

Sample Spam

From: eerwdqbq@beebonline.com Subject: Copies of Princess Diana Love Notes uncut and uncensored!!!! Newsgroups: rec.nude x-no-archive: yes Message-ID: <37d7cfea_1@einstien.netscapeonline.co.uk> Date: 9 Sep 1999 16:19:06 GMT Lines: 214 X-Report: Report abuse to abuse@netscapeonline.co.uk X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.20.1.166 NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.20.1.166 X-Trace: 9 Sep 1999 16:19:53 GMT, 10.20.1.166 X-Report: Report abuse to abuse@netscapeonline.co.uk Path: denver-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com! news.gtei.net!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!iclnet! plato.netscapeonline.co.uk!10.20.1.166 free access on this site, http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/happyface5 [192 lines deleted] --- Lx qnwoa waxemtxy pm c vfjetrrq lpsboovq obpfeuoy pwctsmmae yixkt tspxwiafig uughl nckbenrmca y t tjwpxyb jxmfdwhdx kbb ocmsaqasu caxg qbn ouvdoot vkscmvsndi hjcy rx ghjfryunef egnsdjd kuuiyibdp if nyjvrp elwquhest twbvl qprehka gnp nahdvmn.

To report spam, contact abuse@netscapeonline.co.uk

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 Netscapeonline.co.uk.
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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