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news.admin.net-abuse.email (sometimes abbreviated nanae
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:
- Chain letters
- DoS attacks
- Email address list
- Email bomb
- Email viruses
- Filtering software
- Large-scale mailings
- Listserv bombs
- Mailing list abuse
- Pyramid schemes
- Unsolicited email
Eventually, by mutual consent, it was also determined that the following were also "on-topic":
- Cats (on a superficial/anecdotal level)
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.[3]
Later that month it went to vote and passed 451 to 28.[4]
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 coined:[5][6][7]
- 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 and a parody of spammers claiming their spam is 301 compliant, referring to a bill that never made it into a law.
- Auto-ignore
- The automated response from an ISP's abuse desk, when it is believed that sending out the automated response is the only action the ISP will take.
- Black hat
- An ISP that enables spamming, for example a hosting provider that does not act upon spam complaints. Named after old westernswhere the bad guys often wore black hats. Compare white hat and gray hat.
- Bulletproof
- Said when it's difficult to get an ISPto take action against spamming customers.
- Cartooney
- A derisive portmanteau of the words cartoon and attorney, used to refer to a hollow lawsuit threat with which a spammer tries to intimidate an anti-spammer. This term may also refer to the spammer's lawyer (who is usually assumed not to exist). The majority of such hollow legal threats arise in the context of a listed entity threatening a blacklist maintainer with legal action.
- Cats and Coffee warning
- A Cats and Coffee warning[8][9] or C&C warning is a satirical warning that a usenet posting or other writing may contain humorous material.[10] The C&C warning originated with the usenet group news.admin.net-abuse.email, but has spread to other groups.[11] 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.
- Chew toy
- From time to time, a spammer surfaces in the group, typically ranting about how spam control activities, such as blacklisting, amount to censorship and violate that spammer's right to free speech.[12] These visiting spammers are referred to as chew toys (because of the slight entertainment value their tirades provide). The same chew toy may frequent the group for several years. There may not always be a chew toy active, and very seldom have there been more than one concurrently.
- Chickenboner
- A derisive term used to refer to minor or amateur spammer. Named after a colorful and humorous description one newsgroup participant made of spammers living in Kentucky Fried Chicken.
- Cut it out, Ron
- A standard response to a posting that is suspected to be a troll. Named after a regular poster who often wrote humorous troll posts.
- 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 misspelled it as "frea 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.[13]
- Gray hat
- An ISPwhose stance in spam matters is somewhat ambiguous. It may terminate some spamming customers but not all of them. Compare black hat and white hat.
- Hat check
- A request to determine the reputation of a given ISPin spam matters. See also black-, gray- and white hat.
- Joe job
- The act of sending out spam made to look like it came from a person or organization which the spammer dislikes. anti-spamorganizations are often the victims of these, as are some individual anti-spammers. Being Joe-jobbed is usually taken as a sign that the victim must have really hurt some spammer.
- LART
- A meme which jokingly refers to a fictitious hypothetical blunt instrument (i.e. a " Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool") whose primary and/or singular use and purpose is the metaphorically application or introduction of understanding (typically of Internet norms and conventions, but of any concept whatsoever) to a person currently lacking such understanding. Large mallets and anvils are popularly referred to as examples of items or tools which would be useful as LARTs.[14]
- Listwashing
- The act of responding to complaints by removing the complainer's email address from the spammer's list, without taking any further actions against the spammer.
- Lumber Cartel
- A tongue-in-cheeck anti-spammerswere secretly paid agents of lumber companies.
- Mainsleaze
- Spam coming from a notable or well-known ("mainstream") company.
- Netscum
- A list of anti-spam activists published by Sanford Wallace (also known as Spamford Wallace).
- Pink contract
- A contract for internet services or hosting that makes it difficult to impossible to terminate the contract for spamming.
- Quirk Objection
- 'Objection! Assumes X not found in evidence!' A humorous objection, raised when the previous poster assumes the presence of something that has not yet been proven to exist. Not used to refer to things that have definitely been proven not to exist. Named after the regular poster 'Captain Gym Z. Quirk' who first raised this. Often shortened to ObQuirk!
- Sock
- A poster who is suspected to be someone else (usually a spammer) using a new name. Shortened from Sock Puppet.
- Spamhaus
- Originally, this term was used as a derogatory epithet to refer to any individual ISPthat had mostly or only spammers for customers. Nowadays, it more often refers to the anti-spam organization of the same name.
- Spamware
- Software that was written explicitly for the purpose of spamming, or has features that are mostly or only useful to spammers and other abusers. Also called 'ratware'.
- TINLC
- There is no Lumber Cartel
- TINW
- There is no We. The poster recognizes that NANAE does not have a collective opinion.
- Whack-a-Mole
- The act of repeatedly causing spammers' throwaway accounts and drop boxes to be terminated. Named after the Whack-A-Mole arcade game.[5]
- White hat
- An ISP which takes spam complaints seriously and terminates offenders swiftly and with extreme prejudice. Named after old westernswhere the good guys usually wore white hats. Compare black hat and gray hat.
References
- ISBN 9781491913710.
- ^ Lynch, Keith. "Keith Lynch's timeline of spam related terms and concepts".
- Usenet: [email protected]. Retrieved 2009-06-03Also posted to news.groups,news.admin.net-abuse.announce,news.admin.net-abuse.misc,news.admin.misc,news.admin.censorship,news.admin.hierarchies)
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link - Usenet: [email protected]. Retrieved 2009-06-03Also posted to news.groups,news.admin.censorship,news.admin.hierarchies,news.admin.net-abuse.announce,news.admin.net-abuse.misc)
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link - ^ a b Andrew Nellis (1998-09-14). "The Net Abuse Jargon File". Archived from the original on 2006-08-06.
- ISBN 0-596-00732-9.
- ISBN 0-596-00732-9.
- ^ SPAM FAQ Archived 2004-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Jargon File
- ISBN 0-596-00732-9.
- ^ Catsandcoffee.org
- ^ "The Deja Vu Sequence".
- ^ "Frea Speach Store". The unofficial NANAE Kook Kollektion.
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External links
- News.admin.net-abuse.email
- The rules of spam by the Rules Keeper (backup copy)