News.admin.net-abuse.email

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 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 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
news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting
alt.spam

External links

nanae FAQ

nanae RFD

nanae voting results