Overview of spam from Tiac.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

Overview of last 1 reports

date	posts	total	BI
07 Apr 2000	12	115	34.15	full headers

full history also available

General information about Tiac.com

Added 2 Sep 1997.

Tiac has recently had staffing and labor relations problems. This has led to some confusion in their internal processes, and allowed a number of spammers to get a toe-hold. Discussion of UDP is currently underway, and Tiac has been given a 5-day warning.

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois indicates that Tiac.com is

The Internet Access Company TIAC2-DOM
   175 The Great Road
   Bedford, MA 01730

   Domain Name: TIAC.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      TIAC Hostmaster domreg@TIAC.NET
      tel.: 617-932-2000  fax.: 617-932-2098


   Record last updated on 22-May-97.
   Record created on 11-Jul-94.
   Database last updated on 2-Sep-97 05:14:00 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   ZORK.TIAC.NET                199.0.65.2
   SUNDOG.TIAC.NET              199.0.65.9

Site history

15 June 1999: Tiac is rumored to have been bought by PSI. Tiac will continue to be tracked seperately for now.
3 Sept 1997: Tiac is dealing with Special FX. Special FX acknowledges that they own the sites being spamvertized, but say they have no control over the advertiser's actions.

Cancel Statistics

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

31 Aug 1997: 32368
8 Sept 1997: 16812

To report spam, contact abuse@tiac.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 Tiac.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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