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- From ntenny@qualcomm.com (_Nathan _Tenny)
- Organization Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
- Date 9 Apr 1997 00:00:45 -0700
- Summary This posting summarizes my list of addresses associated with junk email.
- Newsgroups news.admin.net-abuse.email
- Message-ID <spam-digest-1-860569238@qualcomm.com>
-
- Posted-By: auto-faq 3.2.1.4
- Archive-name: spam-digest
- Posting-Frequency: monthly (on the 9th)
-
- Wed Apr 9 0:00:07 US/Pacific 1997: 2950 entries
-
- This periodic posting summarizes the contents of my Big List of Email
- Spammers. The contents of the list are drawn from junk email that arrives
- at my mailbox and from reports posted to news.admin.net-abuse.sightings
- and news.admin.net-abuse.email; each entry is an email address associated
- with a piece of junk email. There are no duplicates; however, several
- addresses are often associated with a single mailing.
-
- The list excludes addresses at certain sites that are associated with
- large volumes of junk email from multiple addresses; these sites are
- listed below.
-
- Addresses are removed from the list when I'm convinced that the relevant
- mailing has been stopped.
-
- The list contains many obviously forged addresses; some are probably the
- email addresses of innocent victims. No attempt has been made to exclude
- these addresses, as the purpose of the list is to recognize junk email, not
- to enumerate guilty parties. For this reason, among others, I won't make
- the list itself available.
-
- This posting is intended to provide a snapshot of the state of junk email.
- It is automatically generated and posted to news.admin.net-abuse.email on
- the 9th of every month.
-
- Please report any problems to Nathan Tenny <ntenny@qualcomm.com>. You
- don't need to report the bug that causes New York to be classified as a
- country; I already know about it.
-
- The contents of this posting do not represent an official statement on
- the part of Qualcomm, Inc. I work for them but I don't speak for them.
-
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-
-
-
- Excluded Sites
- ==============
-
- Addresses at these sites are *omitted* from the Big List. I have blocked
- incoming email from these sites, either because they are dedicated sources
- of junk mail, or because they are essentially innocent sites that have
- persistent problems with email spammers. The second category is important;
- it means that many of the entries in this list are *not* *dedicated* *spam*
- *sites*.
-
- It would be inappropriate for anyone to block email from these sites solely
- because of this list; seek independent confirmation. Any list of this
- nature is necessarily a product of personal judgement; these are sites from
- which *I* choose not to receive email because of their junk email problems,
- but not everyone will agree. Moreover, while the list is accurate to the
- best of my knowledge, I have made mistakes in maintaining it in the past
- and will probably do so in the future.
-
- Under no circumstances should any malicious action be taken towards a site
- based on its inclusion in this list.
-
- 1stamend.com, 1stchoicecom.com, 1stfortune.com, actionlawn.com,
- acun.com, acunet.net, anotherdomain.com, answerme.com,
- arcturus.net, ascella.net, babeview.com, bbbiiizzz.com,
- bigfoot.com, bizimage.com, brobro.com, bu1kemai1.com,
- bulkads.com, bulkinquiries.com, bulkinternet.com,
- bulkmagnet.com, bulkpower.com, bulkreadit.com,
- bulkresponses.com, bulkseeit.com, bulksendit.com, bundren.com,
- businesslink.net, buytime.com, californiakid.com, capella.net,
- cencom.net, chag.com, clever.net, cnitelecom.com,
- codetel.net.do, computer.net, cpmall.com, crushnet.com,
- cyber-broadcasting.com, cyber-l-i-1.com, cyber-mail.com,
- cyber-o-0-o.com, cyber-promo.com, cyber-s-i-q.com,
- cyber-t-p-l.com, cyber-times.com, cyberdrive.net,
- cyberemag.com, cyberout.com, cyberpr0m0.com, cyberpr0mo.com,
- cyberprom0.com, cyberpromo.com, cyberspy.com, cybersyst.com,
- dataline.net.au, death-star.com, desen.com, dm1.com,
- earthlink.net, earthstar.com, eastland.net, emai12u.com,
- emai1srus.com, email2u.com, email2you.com, emailpromo.com,
- emailsrus.com, emaster.com, enetcomm.com, excited4u.com,
- exoticbabes4u.com, extractor.com, fantasyzone.com, fia.net,
- fight4rights.com, fincon.com, flinet.com, floodgate.com,
- fnmail.com, fortunefive.com, freeconnect.com, freeppp.com,
- frontiernet.net, fullmkt.com, future.at, gatewayfin.com,
- gatewayinc.com, gatewayint.com, genesisnetwork.net, gldb.com,
- global2000.net, globalfinan.com, globalfinc.com, globalfn.com,
- globalprosp.com, globalprosper.com, gohomeray.com, golden.net,
- golden.org, goodprice.com, gtwinc.com, hallgroup.com,
- hammerstonedirect.com, helpnet.net, helpnet.net, hereyougo.com,
- hotgrrls.com, hotmail.com, huihoa.com, ibb.com, icanect.com,
- icanect.net, icanet.net.mx, idt.net, iloveusa.com, imago.net,
- ingenue.com, inteam.com, intense4u.com, internet-mail.com,
- internetelite.com, internetfree.com, internetmedia.com,
- interramp.com, interserve.com.hk, iq-internet.com, isp-am.net,
- isp-inter.net, isp-inter[0-9][0-9][0-9], ispam.com, ispam.net,
- istar.ca, itek.net, jembargains.com, juno.com, keepmailing.com,
- keever.net, l-e-n-members.com, l-e-n.com, lewd4u.com,
- lightningbolt.com, lostvegas.com, lrmf.com,
- lrspublications.com, luv2cu.com, lvsweeties.com, mailbank.com,
- mailloop.com, mailout.com, mailreport.com, manda1.com,
- maraphone.com, markettech.com, massemail.com, massmarket.com,
- michigan.com, misha.net, mjcl.com, mjcl.com, moneyworld.com,
- mrls.com, msf.com, mvisibility.com, natureplus.com,
- net1plus.com, netamerica1.com, netchem.com, netcreations.com,
- netforward.com, netfree.com, newhorizonsads.com, nob1ock.com,
- noblock.com, nocensorship.com, ntview.com, nwhorizons.com,
- o-c-s.com, oddmall.com, one-and-only.com, outmail.com,
- overtheair.com, pathinternational.com, pathwayintl.com,
- pin-point.com, pleaseread.com, pleasure4u.com,
- pleasuregirls.com, powerpromo.com, ppgsoft.com, priceless.com,
- primedatasystems.com, primedatasystems.com, progressfort.com,
- promocyber.com, prospectnet.com, psi.com, psrinc.com,
- pwrnet.com, pwrsite.com, pynet.com, qcnet.com, quantcom.com,
- quantumcom.net, randomdomain.com, rcnet.com, realreturn.com,
- reedrules.com, regulus.net, ring.com, rvik.edu, sanfordw.com,
- savepaper.com, savetrees.com, savvy.com, selfhelpnet.com,
- sender3.com, senderthree3.com, sensual4u.com, servint.com,
- shoppingplanet.com, singnet.com.sg, softcell.net,
- southbeachbabes.com, spamford.com, spica.net, sprintmail.com,
- stone-inc.com, stoptheblock.com, stressballs.com, stsim.com,
- sunsetdirect.com, supergood.com, superlink.net, swallace.com,
- sweeties.com, taskey.com, telysis.com, tmi.org, tosguard.com,
- ultragrafix.com, upx.net, usa.net, uspubs.com,
- virtual-adnet.com, visc.com, washmall.com, washweb.com,
- webcreations.com, webersmall.com, webspinerz.com, webular.com,
- wilshireblvd.com, world-access.com, wsmith.com, xoom.com,
- xponential.com, xtc4u2c.com, ynterpro.com, yougotmail.com,
- youvegotmail.com, zapback.com, zoom.com, zygn.com, zygon.com,
-
- List Summary
- ============
-
- There are 2950 entries in all, distributed as follows.
-
-
- Big 5: 2679 entries
-
- .com: 1847
- .net: 774
- .org: 38
- .edu: 15
- .gov: 2
-
- Country codes: 178 entries representing 44 countries
-
- .ca: 36
- .uk: 29
- .au: 20
- .se: 6
- .dk: 6
- .sg: 6
- .us: 6
- .de: 6
- .es: 6
- .il: 4
- .fr: 4
- .jp: 3
- .mx: 3
- .fi: 3
- .hk: 2
- .nz: 2
- .su: 2
- .gr: 2
- .ie: 2
- .za: 2
- .ch: 2
- .nl: 2
- .is: 2
- .it: 2
- .in: 1
- .ua: 1
- .ke: 1
- .no: 1
- .ny: 1
- .fg: 1
- .tw: 1
- .be: 1
- .ai: 1
- .np: 1
- .eg: 1
- .th: 1
- .ed: 1
- .si: 1
- .ee: 1
- .co: 1
- .br: 1
- .ru: 1
- .at: 1
- .cn: 1
- (5.83% apparent non-US spam)
-
-
- Top 20+ sources:
-
- This list is probably the least meaningful part of this posting. It
- attempts to list the 20 domains that appear most frequently in the Big
- List. (The list is extended as necessary to accommodate ties, so that
- "extra" domains with enough appearances to make the list are included.)
- However, since the Big List contains many forgeries, these totals are
- largely fictional. In particular, huge numbers of email spammers forge
- return addresses at aol.com; hence the large total for aol.com should be
- taken with many grains of salt.
-
- The results are also skewed by the differing practices of ISPs in reporting
- to the Usenet community when they eliminate spammers. AT&T WorldNet, for
- instance, is said to terminate spammers' accounts, but does not report such
- terminations to the world at large; therefore I can't know when to remove
- att.net (==worldnet.att.net) addresses from the list.
-
- The figures for netcom.com include ix*.netcom.com, but not netcom.ca. The
- number for att.net should really be labeled "worldnet.att.net"; there is
- a separate domain called att.net, but all the att.net entries in the Big
- List are actually from WorldNet.
-
- 1. aol.com: 132
- 2. netcom.com: 99
- 3. att.net: 50
- 4. compuserve.com: 28
- 5. concentric.net: 26
- 6. prodigy.net: 19
- 7. sprynet.com: 19
- 8. cris.com: 17
- 9. gnn.com: 15
- 10. msn.com: 14
- 11. bellsouth.net: 12
- 12. ibm.net: 11
- 13. gte.net: 10
- 14. demon.co.uk: 9
- 15. flash.net: 9
- 16. pacbell.net: 8
- 17. slip.net: 7
- 18. ios.com: 7
- 19. cts.com: 7
- 20. tiac.net: 6
- 21. nowhere.com: 6
- --
- Nathan Tenny ntenny@qualcomm.com
- Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA http://www.qualcomm.com/~ntenny/
-
- The rec.pets.herp FAQ lives at http://www.qualcomm.com/~ntenny/herps/FAQ.html
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