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