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What Is AOspam?
Please Note: Project is no longer in development.
AOspam tracks cham (chat room spam) on the popular ISP America Online.
Despite the company’s claim that it protects members from email and web spam, their chat rooms are another story.
The project aims to produce data on such things as time, frequency, amount and other related information generated by cham in AOL chat rooms.
The project’s acronym stands for America Onspam.
Scope
The project is a single system used for gathering AOL cham data.
It includes hardware and custom software written in Perl and VB.NET to gather/analyze data such as time, date, frequency, etc and store it in a MySQL database.
This data is then publicly posted to a website.
This project offers some interesting statistical info on the cham that flows through AOL’s rooms.
This data will be of interest to many different users, especially AOL’s customers and the computing community at large.
This will also offer an opportunity to shed some light on a long-overlooked problem.
Assumptions
AOL won’t come after us.
AOL won’t change chat code.
Successful implementation of code.
Hardware procurement is smooth.
We don’t die before we are done.
Everything will work.
