Overview of spam from Theglobe.com

13 Apr 1999

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 2 reports

date	posts	total	BI
23 Jul 2000	18	94	37.33	full headers
20 Oct 1999	14	83	32.59	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 20 Oct 1999	32	177	69.92
Peak spam on 23 Jul 2000	18	94	37.33
Peak daily spam on 23 Jul 2000	0	0	0.13	(277-day average)
Average daily spam	0.1	0.3	0.13

full history also available

General information about Theglobe.com

Added 23 June 1998. Report includes both spam originating from TheGlobe.com and spam advertising web sites at TheGlobe.

TheGlobe seems to have a responsive abuse department and will disconnect spammed web pages.

To report spam, contact abuse@corp.theglobe.com

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 Theglobe.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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