Complete history of Worldnet

The following is a summary of all spam observed from Worldnet since tracking began. Some samples encompass multiple days.

NOTE: Rahul.net suffered a disk crash on 13 Oct 1999. History information has been lost. These numbers may only reflect spam seen since 13 Oct 1999.

Date		Posts	Groups	BI	Days	Average

1999/10/20	   39	  121	   66.1
1999/11/1	   33	  112	   60.5	 12	    2.8	    9.3	    5.0
1999/11/12	   23	   55	   34.5	 11	    2.1	    5.0	    3.1
1999/12/9	   22	   57	   33.5	 27	    0.8	    2.1	    1.2
1999/12/14	   64	  290	  133.9	  5	   12.8	   58.0	   26.8
1999/12/17	   49	  245	  109.6	  3	   16.3	   81.7	   36.5
2000/1/3	  123	  582	  264.8	 17	    7.2	   34.2	   15.6
2000/3/14	  122	  345	  200.8	 71	    1.7	    4.9	    2.8
2000/4/21	   26	   52	   34.5	 37	    0.7	    1.4	    0.9
2000/5/19	   32	   60	   42.7	 28	    1.1	    2.1	    1.5
2000/6/9	   43	  155	   78.1	 21	    2.0	    7.4	    3.7
2000/9/11	  115	  245	  157.6	 94	    1.2	    2.6	    1.7

Total:		  691	 2319	 1216.7
average		    2.1	    7.1	    3.7

12 samples covering 326 days

Notes:

Date: Ending date of sample period. YY/MM/DD format.
Posts: Total number of articles identified as spam during that period.
Groups: Total number of newsgroups spammed.
BI: Breidbart Index
Days: Number of days encompassed by the sample period.
Average: Average daily spam during the sample period.

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