Overview of spam from Satcom.net.au

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

General information about Satcom.net.au

Added 6 July 1999 due to excessive porn spam in Alt.sexual.abuse.recovery

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Sample Spam

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies satcom.net.au as

  inetnum:     203.0.0.0 - 203.63.255.255
  netname:     AUNIC-AU
  descr:       Telstra Internet
  descr:       5/490 North Bourne Av.
  descr:       Dixson
  descr:       Canberra ACT 2903
  country:     AU
  admin-c:     GH105
  tech-c:      GH105
  remarks:     national nic
  remarks:     See http://www.aunic.net/ or whois.aunic.net
  notify:      dbmon@apnic.net
  mnt-by:      MAINT-APNIC-AP
  mnt-lower:   MAINT-APNIC-AP
  changed:     dbmon@apnic.net 19990629
  source:      APNIC

  person:      Geoff Huston
  address:     Telstra
  address:     Locked Bag 5744
  address:     Canberra
  address:     ACT 2601
  address:     AU
  phone:       +61 2 6208 1906
  fax-no:      +61 2 6248 6165
  e-mail:      hostmaster@telstra.net
  nic-hdl:     GH105
  notify:      dbmon@apnic.net
  changed:     gih@telstra.net 19990210
  source:      APNIC

  inetnum:     203.37.252.0 -  203.37.253.255
  netname:     SATCOMNETAU-AU
  descr:       Satcom.net.au P/L
  descr:       373 Kent St
  descr:       Maryborough
  descr:       QLD  4650
  country:     AU
  admin-c:     DS20-AU
  tech-c:      AU6-AP
  remarks:     The authoritive server for this object is at whois.aunic.net.
  remarks:     Changes to this object should be made at http://www.aunic.net/
  remarks:     The AUNIC db was last mirrored by APNIC on 19990701
  changed:     register@aunic.net 19980521
  changed:     dbmon@apnic.net 19990701
  source:      AUNIC

Site history

6 July 1999: Added to tracking list.

Sample Spam

Path: denver-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com! news.gtei.net!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!newspeer.monmouth.com! newspeer1.nac.net!news.interpacket.net!suckbox.satcom.net.au! 203.37.253.225 From: vuubxc@hotmail.com Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery Subject: HARDCORE SLUTS Date: 4 Jul 1999 16:34:17 +1000 Organization: Interpacket Group Inc. Lines: 4 Message-ID: <377f0069$5@suckbox.satcom.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.198.215.245 X-Trace: news.interpacket.net 931074356 12713 209.198.215.245 (4 Jul 1999 07:45:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.interpacket.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Jul 1999 07:45:56 GMT X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.37.253.225 X-Authenticated-User: puremojo GET THE BEST ACTION ON THE NET FROM THIS HOT SPOT!!!! NO BULLSHIT LINKS TO FUCK KNOWS WHERE. CUM AND GET SOME HOT HOT ACTION!!!!! http://www.satcom.net.au/lightning/NF/SEX.htm

To report spam, contact abuse@satcom.net.au

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 Satcom.net.au.
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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