Overview of spam from Prodigy.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 8 reports

date	posts	total	BI
21 Apr 2000	18	111	43.70	full headers
25 Feb 2000	16	93	37.64	full headers
24 Jan 2000	16	64	30.14	full headers
12 Jan 2000	13	92	34.50	full headers
21 Dec 1999	12	77	30.36	full headers
03 Dec 1999	15	91	36.30
16 Nov 1999	19	71	33.38
29 Oct 1999	18	81	35.92

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 29 Oct 1999	127	680	281.94
Peak spam on 21 Apr 2000	18	111	43.70
Peak daily spam on 24 Jan 2000	1	5	2.51	(12-day average)
Average daily spam	0.6	3.4	1.41

full history also available

General information about Prodigy.com

Added 28 July 1997 due to excessive porn spams to alt.sexual.abuse.recovery.d

I believe that Prodigy was the first site ever actually UDP'd.

Mail to abuse@prodigy.com bounces with "User Unknown"

Mail to postmaster@prodigy.com bounces with "User Unknown" in violation of RFC's.

Site history

Site history

28 July 1997: Added to tracking list.

October 1997: Now hosting Woodside
9 Oct 1997: Woodside has apparently been disconnected.
17 Oct 1997: Woodside has not been disconnected, or they've managed to come back. Many sites are beginning to shun Prodigy due to their inability or unwillingness to deal with the problem.

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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 Prodigy.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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