Overview of spam from Total.net

23 Apr 1998

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 6 reports

date	posts	total	BI
11 Sep 2000	52	117	74.50	full headers
23 Jul 2000	31	110	54.91	full headers
23 Jun 2000	20	74	35.25	full headers
19 May 2000	12	90	31.95	full headers
24 Jan 2000	230	2264	718.67
22 Nov 1999	17	81	33.33

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 30 Apr 1997	455	3538	1220.50
Peak spam on 24 Jan 2000	230	2264	718.67
Peak daily spam on 1 May 1997	26	228	76.69
Average daily spam	0.4	2.8	0.97

full history also available

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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 Total.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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