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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.

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[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] NANAEisms

Over time, some (more or less) NANAE-specific terms were coined[1]:

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[1][2] 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.[3] 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 
Lumber Cartel 
a conspiracy theory that claimed anti-spammers 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.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Andrew Nellis (1998-09-14). The Net Abuse Jargon File.
  2. ^ Frea Speach Store. The unofficial NANAE Kook Kollektion.

[edit] Further reading

  • Brian S. McWilliams (2004). Spam Kings: the real story behind the high-rolling hucksters pushing porn, pills and @*#?%. O'Reilly, 11–14. ISBN 0596007329. 

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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