Overview of spam from Skypoint.com

22 Apr 1998

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 Skypoint.com

Skypoint has a good anti-abuse policy and responsive admins. The massive spam that caused them to be added to the tracking list was probably a fluke.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies SkyPoint.net as

SkyPoint Communications SKYPOINT2-DOM
   640 Orchid Lane
   Plymouth, MN 55447
   US

   Domain Name: SKYPOINT.NET

   Administrative Contact:
      Kemnitz, Greg  GK132 gk@skypoint.com
      612-475-2959 (FAX) 612-449-0488
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Hostmaster, Skypoint  SH1411 hostmaster@SKYPOINT.COM
      612.417.0227 (FAX) 612.417.9897
   Billing Contact:
      Department, Billing  BD390  nic-bills@SKYPOINT.COM
      612.417.0227 (FAX) 612.417.9897

   Record last updated on 05-Sep-97.
   Record created on 18-Jan-94.
   Database last updated on 9-Apr-98 03:59:16 EDT.

Site history

8 April 1998: Added to tracking list.
9 April 1998: Spammer account locked, it may take a few days for the last of the spam to trickle through the net.
20 April 1998: Skypoint hit again, this time by xxx-18.com

NetNews Feeds

SkyPoint receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

newshub.tc.umn.edu
winternet.com
news.minn.net
news.mr.net

To report spam, contact abuse@skypoint.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 Skypoint.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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