Overview of spam from RR.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 13 reports

date	posts	total	BI
11 Sep 2000	699	2037	1053.53	full headers
23 Jul 2000	97	857	276.58	full headers
07 Jul 2000	478	2313	919.18	full headers
23 Jun 2000	298	1397	571.45	full headers
09 Jun 2000	260	1947	672.75
19 May 2000	107	807	278.79
05 May 2000	140	1082	379.45
28 Apr 2000	109	674	251.23
21 Apr 2000	205	1049	418.73
07 Apr 2000	239	1735	610.16
14 Mar 2000	421	1781	800.18
25 Feb 2000	669	2789	1210.69
12 Jan 2000	83	483	178.98

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 20 Oct 1999	5316	32863	12076.80
Peak spam on 9 Nov 1999	448	4785	1455.87
Peak daily spam on 9 Nov 1999	112	1196	363.97	(4-day average)
Average daily spam	16.3	100.6	36.94

full history also available

General information about RR.com

Added 3 Sept 1997 due to excessive porn spams in Alt.sexual.abuse.recovery.

Mail to postmaster@rr.net bounces with a configuration error.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Cancel statistics

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies RR.com as

EXCALIBUR Group, A Time Warner Company RR6-DOM
   100 First Stamford Place
   Stamford, CT 06902
   US

   Domain Name: RR.COM

   Administrative Contact:
      Kist, Franklin A fkist@EXCALIBUR-GROUP.COM
      203-406-2912 (FAX) 203-406-2921
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Sun, Michael msun@EXCALIBUR-GROUP.COM
      203-406-2916

   Record last updated on 04-Jan-97.
   Record created on 01-Oct-96.
   Database last updated on 3-Sep-97 04:53:18 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   SWORD.EXCALIBUR-GROUP.COM    204.189.87.129
   NS2.MCI.NET                  204.70.57.242

Site history

6 Nov 1999: Saylor is now posting from Rr.com
28 April 1998: Rr.net now has an abuse address
3 Sept 1997: Added to tracking list.

To report spam, contact abuse@rr.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 RR.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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