Overview of spam from Telstra.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 15 reports

date	posts	total	BI
07 Jul 2000	35	60	42.25	full headers
09 Jun 2000	59	106	70.57	full headers
07 Apr 2000	46	203	85.97	full headers
25 Feb 2000	138	754	295.35	full headers
14 Jan 2000	247	2659	808.73	full headers
12 Jan 2000	132	1629	463.08
07 Jan 2000	178	2111	610.72
04 Jan 2000	39	386	122.62
03 Jan 2000	12	99	34.29
06 Dec 1999	108	734	273.26
03 Dec 1999	64	573	186.56
01 Dec 1999	169	2142	599.99
23 Nov 1999	41	391	125.65
09 Nov 1999	11	116	35.41
03 Nov 1999	336	3348	1059.85

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 18 Oct 1999	2938	27744	8860.43
Peak spam on 1 Nov 1999	1099	10247	3350.47
Peak daily spam on 1 Nov 1999	366	3415	1116.82	(3-day average)
Average daily spam	11.2	105.5	33.69

full history also available

General information about Telstra.net

Added 8 July 1997. Telstra, aka Bigpond.com, is a major Australian network service provider. Telstra has a pro-spam policy for their downstream customers. For more information, see The Situation in Australia.

Site history
Netnews Feeds

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Telstra as

Telstra Corporation Limited (TELSTRA-DOM)
   C&G, Traeger Ct
   Fern Hill Technology Park
   Bruce
   ACT, 2617
   AU

   Domain Name: TELSTRA.NET

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Huston, Geoff  (GH105) gih@TELSTRA.NET
      +61 2 6208 1908 (FAX) +61 6 248 6165 (FAX) +61 2 6248 6165
   Billing Contact:
      Huston, Geoff  (GH105)  gih@TELSTRA.NET
      +61 2 6208 1908 (FAX) +61 6 248 6165 (FAX) +61 2 6248 6165

   Record last updated on 01-Oct-1997.
   Record created on 01-Jun-1995.
   Database last updated on 28-Oct-1999 08:30:51 EDT.

Site history

8 May 2002: Threatened with legal action by Brumbies rugby team for selling them IP address space that had been ruined by spammers. See Australian IT article
1 Dec 1999: Saylor is back.
23 Sept 1999: Telstra has reportedly been added to the RBL.. See reference spam http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ev/24.192.1.19-32.txt. That address seems to have already been removed.
23 Aug 1999: Saylor has joined Telstra big-time.
21 Dec 1998: Telstra has started responding to abuse complaints.
18 Dec 1998: Discussion has begun in implementing a passive UDP against Telstra. See netnews article "Who will co-sign this? (Request to de-peer Telstra.net.)" for more info.
June 1998 Lately, Telstra has been flooding alt.sexual.abuse.recovery with porn ads, often featuring rape and incest in the subject line. Telstra admins remain unresponsive.
8 July 1997: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

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

Digex

newsfeed.berkeley.edu

newsfeed.cwix.com
worldfeed.news.gte.net
bofh.vszbr.cz
newsfeed.dacom.co.kr
newspeer.monmouth.com

To report spam, contact one or more of

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 Telstra.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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