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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. Steve Linford , the founder of The Spamhaus Project , sometimes posts in the newsgroup. 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":
In recent years the group has been subject to several attacks, most prominently Denial-of-service Attack s using Hipcrime . HISTORY The group was officially proposed (i.e its RFD posted) by 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. NANAEISMS Over time, some (more or less) NANAE-specific terms were coined1: ; 404-compliant : A website that has been terminated by its hosting provider for terms of service violation is said to be "404-compliant", a reference to the 404 "not found" status code in HTTP. ; Bulletproof : ; Cartooney : ; Cats and Coffee warning : A Cats and Coffee warning or '''C&C warning''' is a satirical warning that a usenet posting or other writing may contain humorous material. The C&C warning originated with the usenet group news.admin.net-abuse.email, but has spread to other groups.[http://www.catsandcoffee.org/ The warning is an admonition to the reader to secure liquid beverages (particularly hot ones) and cats in case uncontrollable laughter breaks out upon reading the article. ; Chickenboner : ; Cut it out, Ron : ; Frea Speach : Spammers claim the right to distribute unsolicited bulk mail as part of their Right To Free Speech under the United States' Constitution. After one such person repeatedly mis-spelled it as "free speach" , newsgroup participants who argued that the right to free speech refers to the right to not be censored by the U.S. Government and nothing to do with the right to employ the services of private individuals and organizations to distribute bulk mail, took to referring to this claimed right as "frea speach", deliberately mis-spelling it partly as a parody and partly to distinguish it from actual free speech rights.2 ; Joe Job : ; that claimed Anti-spam mers were secretly paid agents of lumber companies. ; LART : ; Listwashing : ; Mainsleaze : ; Pink contract : A contract for internet services or hosting that makes it difficult to impossible to terminate the contract for spamming. ; Quirk Objection : ; Sock : ; Spamhaus : ; Spamware : ; TINLC : There is no Lumber Cartel (Well, that's a secret, actually) ; TINW : There is no We ; Whack-a-Mole : The act of repeatedly causing spammers' throwaway accounts and drop boxes to be terminated. Named after the Whac-A-Mole arcade game. REFERENCES FURTHER READING SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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