Overview of spam from Vic.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 2 reports

date	posts	total	BI
07 Apr 2000	336	508	394.34	full headers
14 Mar 2000	51	51	51.00	full headers

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 14 Mar 2000	387	559	445.34
Peak spam on 7 Apr 2000	336	508	394.34
Peak daily spam on 7 Apr 2000	14	22	17.15	(23-day average)
Average daily spam	14.6	22.1	17.15

full history also available

General information about Vic.com

Added 10 Mar 2000 due to excessive porn spam in Alt.sexual.abuse.recovery

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies vic.com as

Virtual Interactive Center (VIC-DOM) (VIC-DOM)
   P.O Box 31571
   Knoxville, TN 37930
   US

   Domain Name: VIC.COM

   Administrative Contact:
      Administration, V.I.C  (GS348)  admin@VIC.COM
      Virtual Interactive Center
      P.O. Box 31571
      Knoxville, TN 37930

      (865) 470-7851 (FAX) (865) 470-7369
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Administration, V.I.C DNS  (SS538)  hostmaster@VIC.COM
      Virtual Interactive Center
      P.O. Box 31571
      Knoxville, TN 37930

      (865) 470-7851 (FAX) (865) 470-7369

   Record last updated on 28-Feb-2000.
   Record created on 30-Apr-1995.
   Database last updated on 10-Mar-2000 13:45:05 EST.

Site history

10 Mar 2000: Added to tracking list.

NetNews Feeds

vic.com receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

netcom.ca
cwix.com

To report spam, contact postmaster@vic.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 Vic.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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