Overview of spam from Realnews.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.

General information about Realnews.net

Update: Now connected via Hardlink.com.

Whois indicates that Realnews.net is

Premier Access REALNEWS3-DOM
   4 Bank Street
   Seymour, CT 06483
   us

   Domain Name: REALNEWS.NET

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Christie, James realnews@BBS.COMM2NET.COM
      203-888-4527 (FAX) 203-888-4527

   Record last updated on 04-Jul-97.
   Record created on 21-Apr-97.
   Database last updated on 29-Aug-97 04:40:56 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   COMM2NET.COM                 206.67.207.2
   SERVER2.COMM2NET.COM         206.67.207.3

Whois indicates that All-Fetishes.com is

Winston Telcom & Associates, Inc. ALL-FETISHES-DOM
   4002 Highway 78 West
   Suite 530-203
   Snellville, Ga 30278
   US

   Domain Name: ALL-FETISHES.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Baker, William admin@ALL-FETISHES.COM
      770-978-3904 (FAX) 770-736-9077

   Record last updated on 14-May-97.
   Record created on 22-Feb-97.
   Database last updated on 29-Aug-97 04:40:56 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.INTER-LINK.NET           206.165.79.1

To report spam, contact abuse@realnews.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 Realnews.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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