Overview of spam from Sympatico.ca

5 Sep 1997

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 1 reports

date	posts	total	BI
05 May 2000	137	165	145.65	full headers

full history also available

General information about Sympatico.ca

Added 10 June 1997. Sympatico is considered borderline rogue. One report from scanning binary groups is that Sympatico has a 50:1 spam:legitimate post ratio.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Cancel statistics

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois gives the following information for sympatico.com:

WorldLinx Telecommunications Inc. SYMPATICO2-DOM
   160 Elgin Street
   Ottawa, Ontario K1G 3J4
   Canada

   Domain Name: SYMPATICO.COM

   Administrative Contact:
      Sheridan, Debbie debbie@BELLGLOBAL.COM
      1-800-565-0567 1-800-565-0567 (FAX) +1 (613) 781-1453
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Peters, Jim jim@BELLGLOBAL.COM
      +1 613-781-9427

   Record last updated on 03-Jul-96.
   Record created on 07-Oct-95.
   Database last updated on 2-Sep-97 05:14:00 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   DNS1.SYMPATICO.COM           204.101.251.1
   DNS2.SYMPATICO.COM           204.101.251.2

Site history

2 Sept 1997: Sympatico is under partial UDP

Cancel Statistics

Statistics provided by Andrew Gierth. Numbers are for the week preceding the date.

To report spam, contact abuse@sympatico.ca

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 Sympatico.ca.
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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