Overview of spam from Nym.alias.net

24 Jan 2000

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
11 Sep 2000	57	125	76.40	full headers
23 Jul 2000	53	377	133.74	full headers
07 Jul 2000	101	827	279.99	full headers
23 Jun 2000	96	908	289.22	full headers
09 Jun 2000	95	841	271.32
19 May 2000	22	231	67.31
05 May 2000	31	233	82.59
28 Apr 2000	45	363	121.39
21 Apr 2000	25	173	62.81
07 Apr 2000	158	593	300.59
14 Mar 2000	71	331	145.33
25 Feb 2000	205	836	380.20
26 Jan 2000	18	82	34.49
24 Jan 2000	53	328	123.72

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 20 Oct 1999	2006	12138	4570.64
Peak spam on 3 Jan 2000	194	1227	457.36
Peak daily spam on 17 Nov 1999	76	449	182.27
Average daily spam	6.0	36.4	13.74

full history also available

General information about Nym.alias.net

Nym.alias.net operates a mail-to-news gateway which is exploited by spammers. Nym.alias.net does nothing to prevent this abuse, and may be considered rogue.

Report also includes forgeries intended to libel innocent people.

To report spam, contact squirrel-admin@echelon.alias.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 Nym.alias.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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