News.admin.net-abuse.email

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news.admin.net-abuse.email (sometimes abbreviated nanae or n.a.n-a.e, and often incorrectly spelled with a hyphen in "email") is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to discussion of the abuse of email systems.

In its original charter the following examples of "on-topic" areas were listed:

• Mailbombing
• DOS attacks
• Listserv bombs
• Unsolicited email
• Email address list
• Mailing list abuse
• Large-scale mailings
• Chain letters
• Email viruses
• Pyramid schemes
• Filtering software

In recent years the group has been subject to several attacks, most prominently denial-of-service attacks using hipcrime.

History

The group was officially proposed (i.e its RFD posted) by Tim Skirvin on July 9 1996 alongside a number of other groups in order to reduce the load on the two net abuse groups at that time, news.admin.net-abuse.announce and news.admin.net-abuse.misc.

Later that month it went to vote and passed 451 to 28.

In September 2002 it was proposed that a subgroup, news.admin.net-abuse.email.blocklists be created. See also:

• news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
• news.admin.net-abuse.sightings
• news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting
• alt.spam

External links

• nanae FAQ
• nanae RFD
• nanae voting results