Overview of spam from Shadow.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.

No spam today

General information about Shadow.net

Added 26 Sept 1997 due to AdultSights spams injected from Netcom. It is not known if Shadow.net is complicit in the spam or is an innocent victim.

Shadow.net is hosted by UUNet. Shadow.net does not accept email from rahul.net.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies shadow.net as

Shadow Information Services
   2000 NW 88 Ct.
   Miami, FL 33172
   USA

   Domain Name: SHADOW.NET

   Administrative Contact:
      Svendsen, Jody  JS96 svendsen@SHADOW.NET
      (305) 594-3450
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Arias, Mike  MA498 mikea@SHADOW.NET
      305-594-3450
   Billing Contact:
      Svendsen, Jody  JS96  svendsen@SHADOW.NET
      (305) 594-3450

   Record last updated on 08-Dec-95.
   Record created on 26-Oct-93.
   Database last updated on 13-Oct-97 05:03:04 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS.SHADOW.NET                204.177.71.2
   AUTH00.NS.UU.NET             198.6.1.65

Site history

26 Sept 1997: Added to tracking list.
29 Sept 1997: open server reported to be closed at this point.
11 Oct 1997: Shadow.net is not accepting mail to postmaster.

To report spam, contact abuse@shadow.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 Shadow.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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