News.admin.net-abuse.email

news.admin.net-abuse.email (sometimes abbreviated nanae or n.a.n-a.e) is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to discussion of the abuse of email systems.

In it's original charter the following examples of "on-topic" areas were listed:

• Mailbombing[?]
• DOS attacks[?]
• Listserv bombs[?]
• Unsolicited email[?]
• Email address lists[?]
• 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 it's 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[?]
• alt.spam[?]

External links

• nanae FAQ (http://www.spamfaq.net/)
• nanae RFD (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=836945105.1322940uunet.uu.net&output=gplain)
• nanae voting results (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=847550753.7941%40uunet.uu.net&output=gplain)