Overview of spam for 7 Jun 2012

There were no sites today with Breidbart Index greater than 20

Parameters of the search are:

• 427 sample groups with "binaries", "sex", "picture", "women" or "sports" in the title, plus selected alt, rec and soc groups.
• Crossposted to 6 or more newsgroups, or with selected criteria.
• Posted since my last report.

General notes:

• This site suffered a disk crash on 13 Oct 1999, and all history data was lost. Numbers displayed here reflect only spam received since 13 Oct 1999.
• Only a small subset of usenet (261 groups) is sampled. Only articles that haven't been cancelled yet are counted. Actual spam may be much greater.
• Some posts may be forgeries intended to look like they came from a given site.
• These reports are automatically generated according to search parameters which I am continuously tuning and re-tuning. It is always possible that a legitimate post will be mis-identified as spam, or that spam will be missed. If you feel that either of these circumstances apply, especially the former, please contact me. Be sure to include full headers of the article you feel was mis-identified.
• It is often a subjective decision as to what constitutes spam and what does not. For example, suppose a phone-sex spammer includes a porn image at the end of every ad. If the ad is the same every time, but the image is different, does this constitute spam? My current software cannot tell the difference.
• 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.
• The phrase "Total of all sites" refers to all sites being monitored, which is more than the sites listed but fewer than all the sites on the internet.

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