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An FAQ for news.admin.net-abuse.email
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^H
3.2.17 What do ^H and ^W mean?
^W
3.2.17 What do ^H and ^W mean?
404-compliant
3.2.8 What does it mean if a website is "404-compliant"?
419
3.4.3 What is the Nigerian 419 Scam?
Abbreviations
3.3 Abbreviations
abuse.net
1.2.7 What email address do I complain to?
Abuse Address
1.2.7 What email address do I complain to?
Abuse Department
1.2.2 How can I find a spammer's ISP?
Abuse Minions
3.2.18 What is "Afterburner"?
Abuse Of the Net
2.1.1 What are UBE and UCE? What is SPAM?
3.1.1 What can be discussed in news.admin.net-abuse.email?
Abuse On the Net
2.1.1 What are UBE and UCE? What is SPAM?
3.1.1 What can be discussed in news.admin.net-abuse.email?
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
1.2.1 I've received some spam... what can I do?
3.2.9 What's a TOS? What's an AUP?
ack
3.2.5 What's an "ack"? What's an "auto-ack"?
Address Harvesting
1.4.1.1 How do spammers get our email addresses?
3.5.8 What is "wpoison"?
Address Munging
1.4.1.4 Address Munging
Advertising by Email
2.2 Advertising by Email
Afterburner
3.2.18 What is "Afterburner"?
An End to Spam
1.5.8 If you anti-spammers are so smart, why am I still getting spam?
3.1.3 What if I've got a new idea to end spam forever?
Anti-Business Communists
1.5.2 Aren't anti-spammers just a load of anti-business communists?
Anti-Social Elements
1.4.2.3.4 SpamBag.org
Anti-Spam Laws
2.3.1 Is spam illegal?
Anti-Spammers
1.5 About Antispammers
auto-ack
3.2.5 What's an "ack"? What's an "auto-ack"?
auto-ignore
3.2.5 What's an "ack"? What's an "auto-ack"?
Backbones
1.3.2.3 Contact their Upstream
Banner Adverts
1.2.6 Who else can I complain to?
Bayesian
1.4.1.6.1 What is Bayesian filtering?
Beer-Cans
3.2.30 What is a "Chickenboner"?
Bill s.1618 Title III
2.3.2.1 The Murkowski Bill
3.2.23 What's a "murk"?
Bill s.877
2.3.2.2 The CAN-SPAM Bill
bitch-list.net
1.3.2.5 Bitching
Black Hat
3.2.24 What's a "black-hat"? What's a "white-hat"?
Blackhole Lists
3.5.1 What is a DNSBL List?
Blackholing
1.4.2.3 DNSBL lists/Blackholing/Blocklisting
Blacklisting
1.4.2.3 DNSBL lists/Blackholing/Blocklisting
Blocklisting
1.4.2.3 DNSBL lists/Blackholing/Blocklisting
BOFH
3.2.32 What's a "BOFH"?
Bottom-posting
3.1.9 What is top-posting and why does it annoy people?
Bouncing
1.4.1.7 If I use a tool to send "bounce messages" for any spam I get, will I get less spam in the future?
Browser Hijacking
1.3.1.4 How can I stop a spammers' website doing bad things to my computer?
Bulk Email
2.2.1 I want to advertise my business using bulk email! How can I do this?
Bulk-Friendly
3.2.10 What does "bulletproof" mean?
3.2.12 What's a "pink contract"?
Bulletproof
3.2.10 What does "bulletproof" mean?
Buying Opt-In Lists
2.2.7 We bought an opt-in list but people still said we were
spamming. What gives?
C&C
3.2.27 What does "C&C" mean?
Cancels
3.1.4 What's with all these nonsense posts and reposts?
3.2.40 Who is Dave/Guido the Resurrector?
CAN-SPAM Bill
2.3.2.2 The CAN-SPAM Bill
Cartooney
3.2.20 What's a "cartooney"?
CAUCE
2.5.2 What is "CAUCE"?
Chain Letters
1.2.5 What if the spam doesn't even include an email address?
3.4.2 What is "Viral Marketing"? What's a Pyramid Scheme? What's MMF?
Challenge-Response
1.4.1.6.2 Challenge-Response Tools
Chickenboners
2.4.1 Spammers all live in trailers and eat KFC, right?
3.2.30 What is a "Chickenboner"?
Choosing an Email Address
1.4.1.2 Choose a non-obvious email address
Closing Relays
3.5.2.1 How can I fix my open relay?
3.5.4 What is "POP-before-SMTP"?
Clue-by-four
3.2.4 What is a LART? What is a mallet?
Collateral Damage
1.4.2.3.6 Collateral Damage
1.4.2.3.7 I'm not a spammer but I'm being blackholed! How do I fix it?
Commercial Email
2.2 Advertising by Email
Complaining
1.2.1 I've received some spam... what can I do?
1.2.2 How can I find a spammer's ISP?
1.3.2.3 Contact their Upstream
1.3.2.5 Bitching
Computer Virus
3.1.7 Are computer viruses on-topic here?
Confirmed Opt-In
2.2.5 What's opt-out? Opt-in? Confirmed/Double/Raspberry Opt-in?
Consent not Content
2.2.2 I'm not a porn-spammer, I'm a legitimate company using bulk email!
Contaminated Mailing Lists
2.2.8 Our opt-in mailing list is contaminated with non-opted-in addresses. Can I send one last mail to its members asking them if they want to remain?
Credit Card Processing
1.2.6 Who else can I complain to?
Cut it out, Ron!
3.2.39 What does "Cut it out, Ron!" mean?
Cyberpromo
3.2.41 Who's this "Spamford" guy people talk about?
Dave the Resurrector
3.1.4 What's with all these nonsense posts and reposts?
3.2.40 Who is Dave/Guido the Resurrector?
DCC
1.4.2.2.1 DCC
Denial of Service (DOS) Attacks
2.3.1 Is spam illegal?
Direct Marketing Association
2.5.1 What is "The DMA"?
Direct-to-MX
3.5.6 What does "direct-to-MX" mean?
Disabling JavaScript
1.3.1.4 How can I stop a spammers' website doing bad things to my computer?
1.3.1.5 What if a spammer's website has disabled right-click?
Distrubuted Checksum Clearinghouse
1.4.2.2.1 DCC
DMA
2.5.1 What is "The DMA"?
DNSBL Lists
1.4.2.3 DNSBL lists/Blackholing/Blocklisting
3.5.1 What is a DNSBL List?
Double Opt-In
2.2.5 What's opt-out? Opt-in? Confirmed/Double/Raspberry Opt-in?
Drop-Boxes
1.2.4 What if the spam doesn't include a website?
DUL
1.4.2.3.1 MAPS
Email Abuse
2.1.1 What are UBE and UCE? What is SPAM?
Email Headers
1.2.2 How can I find a spammer's ISP?
Email Marketing
2.2 Advertising by Email
E-MPS
2.2.4 What if I use a global remove list?
Empty Hat
3.2.24 What's a "black-hat"? What's a "white-hat"?
Erols
3.2.18 What is "Afterburner"?
Fake Bouncing
1.4.1.7 If I use a tool to send "bounce messages" for any spam I get, will I get less spam in the future?
Federal Trade Commission
1.2.6 Who else can I complain to?
Fighting Spam
1 Spamfighting Overview
Filtering Spam
1.4.1.6 Filtering
1.4.2.2 Filtering
First Amendment
2.3.3 Isn't spam protected by the First Amendment?
Floods
3.1.4 What's with all these nonsense posts and reposts?
flowers.com
2.3.1 Is spam illegal?
Forged Headers
2.3.1 Is spam illegal?
Frame-based Forwarding
1.3.1.2 Is the spammer's URL always the place to complain to?
Frea Speach
3.2.21 What is "frea speach"?
Free Speach
3.2.21 What is "frea speach"?
Free Speech
2.3.3 Isn't spam protected by the First Amendment?
fsck
3.2.33 What does "fsck" mean?
Global Remove List
2.2.4 What if I use a global remove list?
Godwin's Law
3.2.34 Someone said I'd invoked Godwin? Is that bad?
Grey Hat
3.2.24 What's a "black-hat"? What's a "white-hat"?
groups.google.com
1.3.2.1.1 news.admin.net-abuse.sightings & groups.google.com
3.1.8 Why is this newsgroup not archived by groups.google.com?
Guido the Resurrector
3.2.40 Who is Dave/Guido the Resurrector?
Gym Quirk Objection
3.2.26 What is the Quirk Objection?
Headers
1.2.2 How can I find a spammer's ISP?
HipCrime
3.1.4 What's with all these nonsense posts and reposts?
3.1.5 I replied to some Anti-American posting in another newsgroup and my article ended up here! What gives?
Honeypot
3.5.2.4 What is a "honeypot"?
HTTP usernames
1.3.1.1 What are these weird URLs?
Ideas
3.1.3 What if I've got a new idea to end spam forever?
Innocent Spammers
2.4.3 Spammers are all scumbags, right?
Internet Marketing
2.2.9 Are there other ways to market on the Internet?
JavaScript
1.3.1.3 Why does the spammer's website's source code look so weird?
1.3.1.4 How can I stop a spammers' website doing bad things to my computer?
1.3.1.5 What if a spammer's website has disabled right-click?
JavaScript Obfuscation
1.3.1.1 What are these weird URLs?
1.3.1.3 Why does the spammer's website's source code look so weird?
Joe Job
3.2.22 What's a "Joe Job"?
joes.com
3.2.22 What's a "Joe Job"?
Joey McNicol
3.2.19 What was the Joey McNicol affair?
KFC
2.4.1 Spammers all live in trailers and eat KFC, right?
3.2.30 What is a "Chickenboner"?
Killfile
3.2.38 What is a "plonk"?
Kook
3.2.36 What's a "kook"?
LART
3.2.4 What is a LART? What is a mallet?
Legal Advice
2.3.4 Can I get legal advice in this newsgroup?
listwashing
3.2.6 What is "listwashing"?
Mail Abuse Prevention System LLC
2.5.3 Who is "MAPS"?
Mailboxes
1.2.5 What if the spam doesn't even include an email address?
Mail Headers
1.2.2 How can I find a spammer's ISP?
Mailing List Contamination
2.2.8 Our opt-in mailing list is contaminated with non-opted-in addresses. Can I send one last mail to its members asking them if they want to remain?
Mainsleaze
3.2.14 What is "mainsleaze"?
Make Money Fast
3.4.2 What is "Viral Marketing"? What's a Pyramid Scheme? What's MMF?
Mallet
3.2.4 What is a LART? What is a mallet?
Mansfield, Wayne
3.2.19 What was the Joey McNicol affair?
MAPS DUL
1.4.2.3.1 MAPS
MAPS - Mail Abuse Prevention System LLC
1.4.2.3.1 MAPS
2.5.3 Who is "MAPS"?
MAPS RBL
1.4.2.3.1 MAPS
MAPS RSS
1.4.2.3.1 MAPS
MLM
3.4.2 What is "Viral Marketing"? What's a Pyramid Scheme? What's MMF?
MMF
3.4.2 What is "Viral Marketing"? What's a Pyramid Scheme? What's MMF?
Multi-Level Marketing
3.4.2 What is "Viral Marketing"? What's a Pyramid Scheme? What's MMF?
Munging
1.4.1.4 Address Munging
Murk
3.2.23 What's a "murk"?
Murkowski Bill
2.3.2.1 The Murkowski Bill
3.2.23 What's a "murk"?
NANAB
3.2.1 What is "nanae"? "nanau"? "nanas" "nanab"?
NANAE
3.1 About news.admin.net-abuse.email
3.2.1 What is "nanae"? "nanau"? "nanas" "nanab"?
NANAS
1.3.2.1.1 news.admin.net-abuse.sightings & groups.google.com
3.2.1 What is "nanae"? "nanau"? "nanas" "nanab"?
NANAU
3.2.1 What is "nanae"? "nanau"? "nanas" "nanab"?
Net-Nazis
1.5.3 Aren't anti-spammers just a load of anti-commerce net-nazis?
Network Prefix
3.5.9 What do those slashes after an I.P. address mean?
New Ideas
3.1.3 What if I've got a new idea to end spam forever?
news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting
3.2.1 What is "nanae"? "nanau"? "nanas" "nanab"?
news.admin.net-abuse.email
3.1 About news.admin.net-abuse.email
3.2.1 What is "nanae"? "nanau"? "nanas" "nanab"?
news.admin.net-abuse.e-mail
3.1.8 Why is this newsgroup not archived by groups.google.com?
news.admin.net-abuse.sightings
1.3.2.1.1 news.admin.net-abuse.sightings & groups.google.com
3.2.1 What is "nanae"? "nanau"? "nanas" "nanab"?
news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
3.2.1 What is "nanae"? "nanau"? "nanas" "nanab"?
NewsAgent
3.1.4 What's with all these nonsense posts and reposts?
Nigeria
3.4.3 What is the Nigerian 419 Scam?
Non-dotted-quad I.P. addresses
1.3.1.1 What are these weird URLs?
Non-English Anti-Spam Documents
1.3.2.2.1 What if the ISP doesn't speak English?
Nonsense Postings
3.1.4 What's with all these nonsense posts and reposts?
Off-Topic
3.1.6 Why are some postings not about email abuse?
Open Proxies
3.5.5 What are open proxies?
Open Relays
1.4.2.3.1 MAPS
3.5.2 What are open relays?
Opt-In
2.2.5 What's opt-out? Opt-in? Confirmed/Double/Raspberry Opt-in?
2.2.6 What methods of opting-in are the best?
Opt-Out
2.2.5 What's opt-out? Opt-in? Confirmed/Double/Raspberry Opt-in?
OT
3.1.6 Why are some postings not about email abuse?
Page Redirections
1.3.1.2 Is the spammer's URL always the place to complain to?
Participating in news.admin.net-abuse.email
3.1.2 Can anyone join in?
Pink Contracts
3.2.12 What's a "pink contract"?
Plonk
3.2.38 What is a "plonk"?
POP before SMTP
3.5.4 What is "POP-before-SMTP"?
Pornography
2.2.2 I'm not a porn-spammer, I'm a legitimate company using bulk email!
Port 25 Blocking
1.4.3 How can an ISP reduce the amount of spam their customers send?
3.5.3 What is "port 25 blocking"?
Post Offices Boxes
1.2.5 What if the spam doesn't even include an email address?
Preventing Spam
1.4 Spam Prevention
Pump and Dump Scam
3.4.1 What's a "pump-and-dump" scam?
Pyramid Schemes
1.2.5 What if the spam doesn't even include an email address?
3.4.2 What is "Viral Marketing"? What's a Pyramid Scheme? What's MMF?
Quirk Objection
3.2.26 What is the Quirk Objection?
Ralksy
3.2.42 Who is "Ralsky"?
RBL
1.4.2.3.1 MAPS
rcn.com
3.2.18 What is "Afterburner"?
Reading Headers
1.2.2 How can I find a spammer's ISP?
Referrer Fees
3.4.2 What is "Viral Marketing"? What's a Pyramid Scheme? What's MMF?
Regular Expression Replacement
3.2.16 What's all this s/something/somethingelse/ stuff mean?
Relay Rape
3.5.2.2 What is "relay rape"?
Remove Address
1.2.1 I've received some spam... what can I do?
2.2.3 Is it okay to spam if I use a remove list?
Remove Lists
2.2.3 Is it okay to spam if I use a remove list?
Reposts
3.1.4 What's with all these nonsense posts and reposts?
Reserve Whitelisting
1.4.1.6.2 Challenge-Response Tools
Right-Click Disabling
1.3.1.5 What if a spammer's website has disabled right-click?
Ritzman
3.2.39 What does "Cut it out, Ron!" mean?
ROKSO
1.3.2.1.2 Halls of Shame
1.4.2.3.2 Spamhaus SBL
RSS
1.4.2.3.1 MAPS
Rule #1
3.2.25 What's Rule #1? What's Rule #3?
Rule #3
3.2.25 What's Rule #1? What's Rule #3?
s/something/somethingelse/
3.2.16 What's all this s/something/somethingelse/ stuff mean?
Sam Spade
1.2.3 Can I do anything about a spammer's website?
Sanford Wallace
3.2.41 Who's this "Spamford" guy people talk about?
SBL
1.4.2.3.2 Spamhaus SBL
Scams
2.4.2 Spammers don't make any money, right?
2.4.4 But some spammers are scumbags, right?
3.4.1 What's a "pump-and-dump" scam?
Smarthost
3.5.7 What is a "Smarthost"?
Sock
3.2.37 What is a "sock"?
Sock-Puppet
3.2.37 What is a "sock"?
Solicited
2.1.3 Junk Email is bad, but won't anti-spam efforts stop us emailing anyone?
Spam
2.1.1 What are UBE and UCE? What is SPAM?
3.2.3 Why does the word "spam" apply to junk email?
SpamBag.org
1.4.2.3.4 SpamBag.org
Spamcop
1.2.8 Can't this all be automated?
SpamCop BL
1.4.2.3.5 SpamCop BL
Spam CSI
1.2.8 Can't this all be automated?
Spam Ethics
1.1.2 What is spam and why do we fight it?
2 The Evils of Spam
Spamfighting
1 Spamfighting Overview
Spam Filtering
1.4.1.6 Filtering
1.4.2.2 Filtering
Spamford
3.2.41 Who's this "Spamford" guy people talk about?
Spamhaus
1.3.2.1.2 Halls of Shame
3.2.11 What's a "spamhaus"?
Spamhausen
1.3.2 What can I do about Spam-Supporting ISPs?
3.2.11 What's a "spamhaus"?
Spam Humour
3.7 Keeping Happy
SPAM-L
3.2.2 What is "SPAM-L"?
Spam Laws
2.3.1 Is spam illegal?
Spammer = Scumbag?
2.4.3 Spammers are all scumbags, right?
2.4.4 But some spammers are scumbags, right?
Spammer Education
1.3.2.2 Education
Spammer Income
2.4.2 Spammers don't make any money, right?
Spammer Research
1.3.2.1 Research
Spammers
2.4 Spammers
Spam News
3.6 Keeping Up-To-Date
Spam Prevention
1.4 Spam Prevention
Spam Prevention Early Warning System
1.4.2.3.3 SPEWS
Spam Problems
2.1 The Problem with Spam
2.1.2 Why is spam a problem?
Spam Profits
2.4.2 Spammers don't make any money, right?
Spam Sending Reductions
1.4.3 How can an ISP reduce the amount of spam their customers send?
Spam Summit
2.2.4 What if I use a global remove list?
Spam-Supporting ISPs
1.3.2 What can I do about Spam-Supporting ISPs?
Spamvertised Email Addresses
1.2.4 What if the spam doesn't include a website?
Spamvertised Phone Numbers
1.2.5 What if the spam doesn't even include an email address?
Spamvertised Postal Addresses
1.2.5 What if the spam doesn't even include an email address?
Spamvertised Websites
1.2.3 Can I do anything about a spammer's website?
Spamware
3.2.13 What is "spamware"?
SPEWS
1.4.2.3.3 SPEWS
Splorf
3.2.27 What does "C&C" mean?
System Administrators
1.5.7 Are anti-spammers all Systems Administrators?
T3 Direct
3.2.19 What was the Joey McNicol affair?
Teergrube
3.5.2.3 What is a "teergrube"?
Terminology
3.2 Colloquialisms
3.3 Abbreviations
3.5 Technical Terms
Terms of Service (TOS)
1.2.1 I've received some spam... what can I do?
3.2.9 What's a TOS? What's an AUP?
The Direct Marketing Association
2.5.1 What is "The DMA"?
Theft by Conversion
2.3.1 Is spam illegal?
The Only 100% Sure Way to Eliminate Spam
1.4.2.1 Stop Accepting All Email
Throw-Aways
3.2.7 What's a "throw-away"?
tinlc
3.2.29 What do "tinw" and "tinlc" mean?
tinw
3.2.29 What do "tinw" and "tinlc" mean?
Top-posting
3.1.9 What is top-posting and why does it annoy people?
traceroute
1.2.3 Can I do anything about a spammer's website?
Trailers
2.4.1 Spammers all live in trailers and eat KFC, right?
3.2.30 What is a "Chickenboner"?
Trespass by Chattel
2.3.1 Is spam illegal?
Troll
3.2.35 What's a "troll"?
TRUSTe
3.2.15 What is "TRUSTe"?
Types of Spammer
2.4 Spammers
UBE
2.1.1 What are UBE and UCE? What is SPAM?
UCE
2.1.1 What are UBE and UCE? What is SPAM?
Unsolicited
2.1.3 Junk Email is bad, but won't anti-spam efforts stop us emailing anyone?
Unsolicited Bulk Email
2.1.1 What are UBE and UCE? What is SPAM?
Unsolicited Commercial Email
2.1.1 What are UBE and UCE? What is SPAM?
Upstreams
1.3.2.3 Contact their Upstream
URL Obfuscation
1.3.1.1 What are these weird URLs?
Verified Opt-In
2.2.5 What's opt-out? Opt-in? Confirmed/Double/Raspberry Opt-in?
Viral Marketing
3.4.2 What is "Viral Marketing"? What's a Pyramid Scheme? What's MMF?
Virus
3.1.7 Are computer viruses on-topic here?
Website Hiding Tricks
1.3.1.2 Is the spammer's URL always the place to complain to?
Whack-A-Mole
3.2.31 What's "Whack-a-mole"?
What Is Spam?
2.1.1 What are UBE and UCE? What is SPAM?
White Hat
3.2.24 What's a "black-hat"? What's a "white-hat"?
Whitelisting
1.4.1.5 Whitelisting
whois
1.2.3 Can I do anything about a spammer's website?
Why Fight Spam
1.5.1 Why do anti-spammers fight spam?
Why Spam Doesn't Scale
2.1.2 Why is spam a problem?
Why Spam Doesn't Work
2.1.2 Why is spam a problem?
2.2.10 I Don't Care about the Welfare of the Internet or Any of these Moral Issues, I Just Want to Make Money. Does Spam Work?
Wpoison
3.5.8 What is "wpoison"?
You owe me a new keyboard!
3.2.27 What does "C&C" mean?
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