Overview of spam from Xoom.com

1 Jun 1999

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 14 reports

date	posts	total	BI
11 Sep 2000	42	139	69.37	full headers
23 Jul 2000	25	49	34.94	full headers
07 Jul 2000	29	73	44.07	full headers
09 Jun 2000	40	295	96.71	full headers
19 May 2000	38	155	67.23
21 Apr 2000	21	124	45.92
14 Mar 2000	68	558	180.83
24 Jan 2000	16	109	40.05
03 Jan 2000	31	207	72.05
21 Dec 1999	40	188	79.96
16 Dec 1999	17	121	45.08
14 Dec 1999	256	413	296.64
09 Dec 1999	335	373	344.54
06 Dec 1999	26	198	69.28

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 29 Oct 1999	1066	3710	1718.29
Peak spam on 9 Dec 1999	335	373	344.54
Peak daily spam on 9 Dec 1999	111	124	114.85	(3-day average)
Average daily spam	3.3	11.3	5.30

full history also available

General information about Xoom.com

Spam report includes spams advertising web pages hosted by Xoom. This may not be obvious from examining the headers.

Xoom seems to have a good anti-spam policy.

Typical spam follows:

Path: newsfeed.berkeley.edu!newsfeed.wli.net!uunet!pao.uu.net! lax.uu.net!ffx.uu.net!satlink!ul3.satlink.com!not-for-mail From: "Marcos Hernandez" <marcosh@bigfoot.com> Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery,alt.sexy.bald.captains, alt.sexzilla,alt.sexzilla.com,alt.sf4m, alt.shared-reality.sf-and-fantasy,alt.shared-reality.startrek.klingon, alt.shenanigans,alt.shoe.lesbians,alt.showbiz.gossip, alt.shut.the.hell.up.geek,alt.sig Subject: COOL SITE Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 16:50:51 -0300 Organization: SatLink, Argentina Lines: 6 Message-ID: <7iuq1q$lnl$7@ul3.satlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ave2ppp-1710.uc.infovia.com.ar X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 alt.sexy.bald.captains:26886 alt.shenanigans:44809 alt.shut.the.hell.up.geek:2837 hehehe look this site http://members.xoom.com/cybergost

To report spam, contact postmaster@xoom.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 Xoom.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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