"POINTER: ALL THESE NET-ABUSE GROUPS! WHICH ONE SHOULD I USE?"

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Last-modified: Tue Jul 22 05:39:05 EDT 1997


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   We have a plentiful selection of news.admin.net-abuse newsgroups,
   but what is the right one to use? Here are excerpts from the
   newsgroups' charters, with emphasis added to help make things
   clear. Please refer to the full charters, URLs included here, if
   you would like more detail.

   If you want to learn more about network abuse -- what it is, what
   can be done about it and just what all those acronyms mean --
   Stan Kalisch keeps an extensive list of informational documents at
   <URL:http://www.crl.com/~sjkiii/news-admin-net-abuse.html>

   Thank you for following these recommendations. It will make the
   net-abuse newsgroups more useful for all involved.

     * news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins (moderated)

       "News.admin.net-abuse.bulletins is a moderated forum for
       BULLETINS OF ACTION TAKEN AGAINST NET ABUSE. Appropriate
       subjects include cancellation notices (EMP/ECP, spew, binary,
       and others), status reports from individual systems
       concerning action taken against abusers, results of tracking
       campaigns, "rogue site" declarations, and the like." You
       brought down a spammer? This is the place to report it.
       Charter
       <URL:http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/nana/nanab.charter>


     * news.admin.net-abuse.sightings (robomoderated)

       "News.admin.net-abuse.sightings is a forum for REPORTS OF
       SIGHTINGS OF NET ABUSE. It is a robomoderated forum, allowing
       only properly formatted posts. Followups are required to be
       set strictly out of the group and into the appropriate group
       in the news.admin.net-abuse.* hierachy."
       Charter
       <URL:http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/nana/nanas.charter>


     * news.admin.net-abuse.policy (robomoderated)

       "News.admin.net-abuse.policy is a moderated forum for
       DISCUSSION of policy and site-management issues related to
       net abuse.  Possible topics include Acceptable Use Policies,
       what actions should be taken against abusers, discussion of
       third-party cancel messages, possible actions against abusive
       sites such as rogue site declarations, discussion of what is
       and is not net abuse, and so forth." Crossposting is not
       allowed here.
       Charter
       <URL:http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/nana/nanap.charter>


     * news.admin.net-abuse.email

       "News.admin.net-abuse.email is a forum for DISCUSSION of
       possible abuses of e-mail. Possible topics include
       mailbombing, denial-of-service attacks, "listserv bombs",
       unsolicited and/or unwanted mail, email address lists,
       mailing list abuse, large-scale mailings in general, chain
       letters, "email viruses" such as Good Times, filtering
       software such as procmail, and so forth. Flames and other
       personal attacks received through email are not on-topic,
       unless they are related to another form of abuse." Please DO
       NOT post reports and sightings here.
       Charter
       <URL:http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/nana/nanae.charter>


     * news.admin.net-abuse.usenet

       "News.admin.net-abuse.usenet is a forum for DISCUSSION of
       possible abuses of Usenet (as defined in
       news.announce.newusers). Possible topics include spamming or
       Excessive Multi-Posting (EMP), Excessive Cross-Posting (ECP),
       Usenet chain letters such as MAKE.MONEY.FAST, forged or
       third-party cancellations, broken Usenet gateways, forgery of
       another user, forged approvals in moderated groups, massively
       crossposted "flametrolls", abuse of the newsgroup creation
       system, general purpose netiquette, and so forth." Please DO
       NOT post reports and sightings here.
       Charter
       <URL:http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/nana/nanau.charter>


     * news.admin.net-abuse.misc

       "News.admin.net-abuse.misc is a forum for DISCUSSION of
       possible net abuse NOT COVERED BY THE REST OF THE
       NEWS.ADMIN.NET-ABUSE.* HIERARCHY. Possible topics include
       ping-storming, site aliasing, denial of service attacks, and
       anything else that DOES NOT FIT INTO THE OTHER FORUMS in the
       news.admin.net-abuse. hierarchy." Please DO NOT post reports
       and sightings here.
       Charter
       <URL:http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/nana/nanam.charter>


     * alt.flame.net-abuse

       Are you simply fed up with spam, the spammer-despammer
       conflicts, or the people who post to the net-abuse
       newsgroups? You just want to vent some steam? Please take it
       here.


     * alt.humor.net-abuse

       Like all current events, network abuse has attracted its
       share of artists. You can find their stories, poems, songs
       and jokes here.


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