Overview of spam from State.net

20 Jun 2007

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.

General information about State.net

State.net has a good abuse policy, although they sometimes need a good larting.

Old information:

Spam is coming from one Scott Wilkerson, who owns the domain '4everyone.com'. State.net is aware of the problem and has steadfastly ignored all complaints.

UPDATE: On 25 Mar 1998, State.net finally closed Wilkerson's accounts after nearly two months of complaints.

Whois identifies state.net as:

Minnesota OnLine STATE3-DOM
   332 Minnesota Street, Suite W3171
   Saint Paul, MN 55101-1308
   USA

   Domain Name: STATE.NET

   Administrative Contact:
      Smith, Gary  GS173 gary.smith@TRADING.NET
      612-225-1110
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Camp, Steven  SC128 Steven.Camp@STATE.NET
      612-225-1110 (612) 426-9858 (612) 426-9858 (FAX) 612-225-1424
   Billing Contact:
      Smith, Gary  GS173  gary.smith@TRADING.NET
      612-225-1110

   Record last updated on 19-Mar-98.
   Record created on 20-Sep-94.
   Database last updated on 23-Mar-98 03:55:44 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS.STATE.NET                 204.75.238.240
   NS1.SPRINTLINK.NET           204.117.214.10
   NS2.STATE.NET                204.75.238.239
   NS2.SPRINTLINK.NET           199.2.252.10
   NS3.SPRINTLINK.NET           204.97.212.10

Whois identifies 4EVERYONE.COM as:

4EVERYONE.COM (4EVERYONE2-DOM)
   745 Griffin Court Apt. A
   Mahtomedi, MN 55115

   Domain Name: 4EVERYONE.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Wilkerson, Scott  SW4254 jaw@MN.STATE.NET
      612-407-3439
   Billing Contact:
      Wilkerson, Scott  SW4254 jaw@MN.STATE.NET
      612-407-3439

   Record last updated on 22-Mar-98.
   Record created on 18-Dec-97.
   Database last updated on 23-Mar-98 03:55:44 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   SERVER1.4EVERYONE.COM        204.72.140.65
   SERVER2.4EVERYONE.COM        204.72.140.66

For more information, see the netnews articles State.net spammer ID'ed, UDP TIME -> STATE.NET AND CENTURYINTER.NET and PLEASE READ----SPAM APOLOGY.

To report spam, contact postmaster@state.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 State.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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