Overview of spam from Softaware.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

General information about Softaware.com

Added 29 April 1998. Softaware.com hosts or hosted Integrated Micro Systems, SluttyGirls.com, and www.a-pleasurepalace.com.

Softaware.com seems to have a good anti-spam policy and will disconnect clients that spam. Softaware's auto-responder sends a positive and informative reply.

Softaware's acceptable use policy can be found at http://www.softaware.com/aup.html Softaware gives spammers one warning and reserves the right to pass spam-related expenses on to the spammer. Bandwidth customers (businesses, other ISPs, etc.) are also bound by the AUP.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Sample spam

Site history

1 July 1998: New spammer: www.a-pleasurepalace.com

14 May 1998: a porn spammer using the names 4analteensex.com, absolutehotsex.com, absoluteanalporn.com and 1on1hardcoresex.com has moved to Softaware.

4 May 1998: "Daniel Elder" has moved to Concentric
30 April 1998: Disconnected "Daniel Elder", the 209.85.33.171 porn spammer. Spam may continue to trickle in for a few more days.
29 April 1998: Added to tracking list. Currently the source of a massive spam advertising an anonymous site at 209.85.33.171.

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Softaware as

SoftAware, Inc. (NETBLK-SOFTAWARE-BLK3)
   4676 Admiralty Way, Ste. 217
   Marina del Rey, CA 90292

   Netname: SOFTAWARE-BLK3
   Netblock: 209.85.0.0 - 209.85.127.255
   Maintainer: SFTA

   Coordinator:
      Weisberger, Jason  (JW923-ARIN) jweis@SOFTAWARE.COM
      (310) 305-0275

   Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

Sample Spam

Path: btnet-peer!btnet!newsfeed.internetmci.com!198.138.0.5! newshub.northeast.verio.net!news1.best.com!nntp1.ba.best.com! not-for-mail From: "Lisa" <lisaslove@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: alt.sex,alt.sex.abstinance,alt.sex.advocacy,alt.sex.aliens, alt.sex.alt,alt.sex.alt.romance.chat Subject: CUM see something wild, new, erotic Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:48:02 +0200 Lines: 9 Message-ID: <6ne05t$5o4$1@nntp1.ba.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dynamic56.pm04.sf3d.best.com X-Trace: 899318781 5892 (none) 206.184.139.132 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sexy FREE tour A jewel for every delight.... http://www.a-pleasurepalace.com

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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 Softaware.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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