Overview of spam from Slurp.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

Overview of last 14 reports

date	posts	total	BI
11 Sep 2000	576	3738	1387.82	full headers
23 Jul 2000	149	1355	446.09	full headers
07 Jul 2000	90	862	276.11	full headers
23 Jun 2000	82	789	252.39	full headers
09 Jun 2000	76	756	235.36
19 May 2000	16	163	50.81
05 May 2000	15	158	48.67
28 Apr 2000	49	442	142.90
21 Apr 2000	83	748	241.84
07 Apr 2000	44	350	120.96
14 Mar 2000	40	331	111.89
25 Feb 2000	61	473	160.30
24 Jan 2000	170	862	382.12
19 Jan 2000	88	491	203.19

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 18 Oct 1999	1893	13808	4914.71
Peak spam on 11 Sep 2000	576	3738	1387.82
Peak daily spam on 24 Jan 2000	34	172	76.42	(5-day average)
Average daily spam	5.7	41.8	14.88

full history also available

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies slurp.net as

Registrant:
KC Data Corporation (SLURP2-DOM)
   1102 Grand, Suite 1700
   Kansas City, MO 64106
   US

   Domain Name: SLURP.NET

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      KC Data Corp. Domain Registration  (KD160-ORG) domreg@KC.NET
      (816)472-4300, Fax- (816)472-0303
   Billing Contact:
      KC Data Corp. Domain Registration  (KD160-ORG)  domreg@KC.NET
      (816)472-4300, Fax- (816)472-0303

   Record last updated on 01-Jan-98.
   Database last updated on 26-Jan-99 05:05:57 EST.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.KC.NET                   209.242.64.50
   NS2.KC.NET                   209.242.64.51

Site history

1 Dec 1999: Saylor now posting from slurp.
22 Jan 1999: The Servint spammer is now spamming from Slurp.net. Slurp's software is inadequate to the task of identifying the accounts responsible; so Slurp was forced to shutdown all outgoing netnews.
13 July 1998: Added to tracking list.

To report spam, contact abuse@slurp.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 Slurp.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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