Overview of spam from Nyx.net

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 1 reports

date	posts	total	BI
12 Nov 1999	641	6546	2045.80	full headers

full history also available

General information about Nyx.net

Added 12 Nov 1999 due to massive spam from Saylor. This spam was cut off almost immediately.

Nyx has live humans operating the abuse desk and a good abuse policy.

Nyx is a customer of or the same as Dimensional.com

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies nyx.net as

Nyx, the Spirit of the Night (NETBLK-DIMC-206-124-29-0)
        P. O. Box 21586
        Boulder, CO 80308-4586
        US

        Netname: DIMC-206-124-29-0
        Netblock: 206.124.29.0 - 206.124.29.255

        Coordinator:
           Board of Directors  (BD355-ORG-ARIN) board@NYX.NET
           303-871-3324, Fax- 303-470-3200

        Record last updated on 03-Aug-1998.

Site history

12 Nov 1999: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

nyx.net receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

Dimensional.com (immediate upstream)

Visi.com (upstream of Dimensional.com>

To report spam, contact abuse@nyx.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 Nyx.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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