Overview of spam from Wans.net

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 7 reports

date	posts	total	BI
22 Nov 1999	50	317	112.76	full headers
09 Nov 1999	48	64	53.46	full headers
03 Nov 1999	72	72	72.00	full headers
01 Nov 1999	65	68	66.24	full headers
29 Oct 1999	60	60	60.00	full headers
22 Oct 1999	30	30	30.00
20 Oct 1999	140	140	140.00

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 20 Oct 1999	465	751	534.46
Peak spam on 22 Nov 1999	50	317	112.76
Peak daily spam on 3 Nov 1999	36	36	36.00	(2-day average)
Average daily spam	9.8	18.5	11.95

full history also available

General information about Wans.net

Wans.net is

Web America Networks, Inc (WANS2-DOM)
   17250 Dallas Parkway
   Dallas, TX 75248
   US

   Domain Name: WANS.NET

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Hostmaster, Web America Networks  (HW109-ORG)  hostmaster@WANS.NET
      972-738-6000
   Billing Contact:
      Accounting, Web America Networks  (AW113-ORG)  billing@WANS.NET
      972-738-6000

Wans.net is the host of porn spammer Matt Middleton. Wans.net is probably rogue.

Wans.net receives connectivity from UUNet.

To report spam, contact postmaster@wans.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 Wans.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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