News.admin.net-abuse.email

news.admin.net-abuse.email (sometimes abbreviated nanae[1] 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, specifically through email spam and similar attacks. According to a timeline compiled by Keith Lynch,[2] news.admin.net-abuse.email was the first widely available electronic forum for discussing spam.

Steve Linford, the founder of The Spamhaus Project, sometimes posts in the newsgroup.

  1. ^ McWilliams, Brian S (9 Sep 2014). Spam Kings: The Real Story Behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn, Pills, and %*@)# Enlargements. O'Reilly Media, Inc. p. 11. ISBN 9781491913710.
  2. ^ Lynch, Keith. "Keith Lynch's timeline of spam related terms and concepts".