Overview of spam from Purdue.edu

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
04 Jan 2000	130	1225	397.20	full headers

full history also available

General information about Purdue.edu

Added 4 Jan 2000 when Tom Saylor started spamming.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Sample Spam

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Purdue.edu as

Purdue University (PURDUE-DOM)
   Computing Center
   Mathematical Sciences Building
   West Lafayette, IN 47907

   Domain Name: PURDUE.EDU

   Administrative Contact:
      Schwab, Jeffrey R  (JRS8)  jrs@PURDUE.EDU
      (765) 496-8283 ext. 283 (FAX) (765) 494-0566
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Ballew, Scott M  (SMB17)  smb@PURDUE.EDU
      (765) 496-8232

   Record last updated on 07-Oct-1997.
   Record created on 24-Apr-1985.
   Database last updated on 4-Jan-2000 12:47:50 EST.

   Domain servers in listed order:

Site history

4 Jan 2000: Added to tracking list.

Sample Spam

Path: tor-nx1.netcom.ca!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com! feeder.qis.net!logbridge.uoregon.edu!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!not-for-mail From: Vxi Death-Token <4n556s@761vinex1.com> Newsgroups: alt.sex.wanted,alt.sex.weight-gain,alt.sex.wizards, alt.sexy.bald.captains,alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica Subject: ** ROMANTIC to KINKY??.** Date: 3 Jan 2000 20:08:39 GMT Organization: Purdue University Lines: 447 Message-ID: <84qvk7$61k$33@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: digipro.ecn.purdue.edu X-Trace: mozo.cc.purdue.edu 946930119 6196 128.46.100.53 (3 Jan 2000 20:08:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@mozo.cc.purdue.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Jan 2000 20:08:39 GMT begin 755 Pjhoto-bnm.jpg M_]C_X``02D9)1@`!`@$`2`!(``#_[0"X4&AO=&]S:&]P(#,N,``X0DE-`^T` M`````!``2`````$``@!(`````0`".$))30/S```````(``````````$X0DE- M)Q````````H``0`````````".$))30/U``````!(`"]F9@`!`&QF9@`&```` [several hundred lines deleted]

To report spam, contact postmaster@purdue.edu

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 Purdue.edu.
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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