Overview of spam from Pcis.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
25 Feb 2000	345	3298	1043.75	full headers

full history also available

General information about Pcis.net

Added 15 Sept 1997. Pcis is Kelly Consultants.

Posts are injected into netnews at Pcis.net from hosts in the 206.84.148 net block. This net block belongs to Advanced Internet Services (AISI). AISI is hosted by Agis.

Pcis.net shares a news server with alt.net. Alt.net controls the server, and is responsible for controlling who posts to it. There is still some confusion as to exactly where and how the posts are injected.

It is believed that AISI users are simply exploiting an open server at Alt/Pcis, or using throw-away accounts at Pcis.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Pcis.net as

Kelly Consultants PCIS2-DOM
   Route 1
   Fordland, MO 65652

   Domain Name: PCIS.NET

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Kelly, Daryl P [Consultant] dkelly@PCIS.NET
      417-767-2126 (FAX) 417-767-4080

   Record last updated on 08-Nov-96.
   Record created on 13-Jun-95.
   Database last updated on 2-Sep-97 05:14:00 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   WWW.PCIS.NET                 205.229.235.253
   NS.UU.NET                    137.39.1.3

Site history

2 Sept 1997: Added to spam tracking list.
5 Sept 1997: File closed when it was believed that posts were forged.
15 Sept 1997: Re-opened; alt.net admins believe that the offending posts do, indeed, come from Pcis.

To report spam, contact postmaster@pcis.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 Pcis.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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