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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. The newsgroup is or should be the one in which discussion of the spam problem and of how to end it would be made. In practice it tends to succumb to the forces that weaken all newsgroups. Among these are strong ego on the part of regular participants and a desire to argue rather than to discuss. This is compounded by the tendency of some to oppose any discussion that shows any weakness of a favorite technique. Nonetheless some useful discussions do occur and the newsgroup frequently is a good place to learn of actual significant events relating to spam, such as (for example) the arrest of a known spammer or the naming of a spammer as the defendant in a lawsuit. Steve Linford, the founder of Spamhaus, sometimes posts in the newsgroup.

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Topics covered

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

Eventually, by mutual consent, it was also determined that the following were also "on-topic":

  • Cats (on a superficial/anecdotal level)

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

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History

The group was officially proposed (i.e its RFD posted) by Wikipedia editor Tim Skirvin (tskirvin) 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.

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NANAEisms

Over time, some (more or less) NANAE-specific terms were coined:

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See also

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External links

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