Overview of spam from Populous.com

19 Oct 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

General information about Populous.com

Added 19 Oct 1999.

Populous.com is a free web hosting service. They have a good abuse policy and a responsive abuse team, with real humans answering the email. They nuke spammers quickly.

Unfortunately, like any other free service, they are an attractive nuisance for spammers.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies populous.com as

InterClick (POPULOUS-DOM)
   800 Fifth Ave, Suite 101-137
   Seattle, WA 98103
   US

   Domain Name: POPULOUS.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Kampen, Kelly  (KK4978)  kelly@INTERCLICK.COM
      (206) 436-2002 (FAX) (206) 436-2017
   Billing Contact:
      Kampen, Kelly  (KK4978)  kelly@INTERCLICK.COM
      (206) 436-2002 (FAX) (206) 436-2017

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS.INTERCLICK.COM            209.102.29.73
   NS2.INTERCLICK.COM           209.102.29.78

Site history

19 Oct 1999: Added to tracking list.

To report spam, contact abuse@populous.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 Populous.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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