Overview of spam from Newsfeeds.com

16 Jul 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 14 reports

date	posts	total	BI
05 May 2000	27	47	34.61	full headers
07 Apr 2000	39	71	50.71	full headers
25 Feb 2000	88	103	94.12	full headers
24 Jan 2000	27	47	34.32	full headers
06 Dec 1999	102	294	172.28	full headers
03 Dec 1999	47	127	76.28
29 Nov 1999	98	116	105.36
22 Nov 1999	121	231	161.26
17 Nov 1999	134	278	186.71
16 Nov 1999	122	320	194.86
09 Nov 1999	35	35	35.00
02 Nov 1999	81	81	81.00
01 Nov 1999	107	107	107.00
29 Oct 1999	38	40	38.83

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 29 Oct 1999	1066	1897	1372.34
Peak spam on 16 Nov 1999	122	320	194.86
Peak daily spam on 17 Nov 1999	134	278	186.71
Average daily spam	5.5	9.9	7.09

full history also available

General information about Newsfeeds.com

Added 14 July 1999. Newsfeeds.com may be an alias of Netzilla. Newsfeeds.com advertises "UNCENSORED Newsgroups", indicating that it may be a professional spam-haven.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Sample Spam

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies newsfeeds.com as

newsfeeds corp (NEWSFEEDS2-DOM)
   3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South
   Las Vegas, NV 89109

   Domain Name: NEWSFEEDS.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact, Billing Contact:
      DNS admin  (DA4478-ORG)  postmaster@JAM.NET
      800-555-1212, Fax- 800-555-1212, Fax- - 800-555-1212, Fax- - 800-555-1212

Note the bogus contact phone numbers.

Site history

14 July 1999: Added to tracking list.

Sample Spam

Newsgroups: alt.sustainable.agriculture,alt.svens,alt.svens.house.of, alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork,alt.sweepstakes Subject: VERY SEXY STUFF 63014 Message-ID: <14079908.5017@Yfgsefs.com> Date: Wednesday, 14 Jul 1999 08:50:17 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: anonymous.newsfeeds.com Lines: 21 X-Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address. It was posted through Newsfeeds.com's exclusive, publically accessable anonymous Usenet Server. X-Comments2: IMPORTANT: Under NO circumstances will postings containing illegal or copyrighted material through this service be tolerated!! X-Report: Please report illegal or inappropriate use to <abuse@newsfeeds.com> X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers, INCLUDING the body X-Abuse-Info2: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly From: Anonymous <nobody@newsfeeds.com> Organization: Newsfeeds.com http://www.newsfeeds.com 72,000+ UNCENSORED Newsgroups. Instant access!! Path: denver-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com! news.gtei.net!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.gctr.net!newspeer1.nac.net! news.new-york.net!uunet!ffx.uu.net!news.usenetserver.com! feed.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!anonymous.newsfeeds.com! newsfeeds.com alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork:2121 ADULTS! Click the link below: http://207.240.225.250 * 18+ Only Please! GrJ&d\Il[L --------== Posted Anonymously via Newsfeeds.Com ==------- Featuring the worlds only Anonymous Usenet Server -----------== http://www.newsfeeds.com ==----------

To report spam, contact abuse@newsfeeds.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 Newsfeeds.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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