Overview of spam from Together.net

5 Nov 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

General information about Together.net

Added 2 Oct 1997

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Together.net as

TGF Technologies TOGETHER2-DOM
   130 S. Willard Street
   Burlington, VT 05401

   Domain Name: TOGETHER.NET

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Together Networks dns-adm@together.net
      (802)862-2030


   Record last updated on 23-Sep-97.
   Record created on 27-Oct-94.
   Database last updated on 2-Oct-97 05:15:28 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.TOGETHER.NET             204.97.120.30
   NS2.TOGETHER.NET             204.97.120.31

Site history

2 Oct 1997: Added to tracking list.

5 Nov 1997: Together.net has tentatively identified the spammer as Chris Ferri. Two of his accounts have been cancelled so far.

To report spam, contact postmaster@together.net

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 Together.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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