Overview of spam from N-link.com

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
25 Feb 2000	18	72	30.97	full headers
29 Oct 1999	10	100	31.62	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 29 Oct 1999	28	172	62.59
Peak spam on 25 Feb 2000	18	72	30.97
Peak daily spam on 25 Feb 2000	0	0	0.26	(119-day average)
Average daily spam	0.2	0.6	0.26

full history also available

General information about N-link.com

Added 5 Oct 1998.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies N-link.com as

NextLink, LLC (N-LINK-DOM)
   2301 E Central Texas Expy Suite 104
   Killeen, TX 76543

   Domain Name: N-LINK.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Gibson, Richard  (RG537) rick@N-LINK.COM
      (254) 953-6051
   Billing Contact:
      Creeley, Douglas  (DC854) dcreeley@N-LINK.COM
      (817) 690-6776

   Record last updated on 26-Nov-97.
   Record created on 11-Oct-95.
   Database last updated on 5-Oct-98 04:06:48 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.N-LINK.COM               206.97.138.1
   NS2.N-LINK.COM               206.97.138.2

Site history

5 Oct 1998: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

N-link.com receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

Cable & Wireless, Inc

To report spam, contact abuse@n-link.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 N-link.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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