[SpamCop-List] Re: Some Stats

[Graeme Leith]

N. Miller wrote:
> In article <cn5j0n$bl$1 at news.spamcop.net>, Graeme Leith says...
[snip]
> All of the domains listed above belong to SBC; all, except pbi.net, are 
> residential gateways, and likely host spam zombies, and the like. Pbi.net 
> appears to be for commercial accounts; probably a source of "mainsleaze" 
> spam; I have received small quantities from that domain.
> 
> Such a table as you have created should, properly, include spam from all of 
> the above sources under just the heading "SBC", as I have done. Since 
> ameritech.net is under your radar, you failed to include them.

Technically, you are correct. However, my system is automated and I 
don't want to do anything to manually massage the results.

> Actually, based on my samples, I would estimate another 275 attempts from 
> ameritech.net; and I will throw in just 1 attempt from snet.net because they 
> register in my logs. Redoing the SBC line again:
> 
> 
>>| SBC (pacbell+swbell)    |   167*|    1,118 |
> 
> 
> I don't have a number for the Ameritech hosts. I used 30 as a WAG. I didn't 
> take SNET hosts into consideration. As you can see, SBC "outshines" Comcast 
> by a significant margin (yeah, I know; shit doesn't shine)! Nearly twice as 
> much proxy spam from SBC as from Comcast. SBC also has a number of entries 
> in the SBL, and hosts at least one ROKSO spammer.

Current Ameritech stats are: 55 hosts with 212 attempts.

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