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Kathy Morgan
Nov 23, 2011, 6:17:26 PM11/23/11
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NANAP is a newsgroup for discussion of policy regarding abuse of
shared networks, or 'net-abuse'. It is a robo-moderated forum,
controlled by a moderation 'bot that automatically
approves anything that it thinks is an on-topic post.
HOW TO POST
===========
(This section assumes that you already know how to post to Usenet
newsgroups in general.)
As NANAP is a robomoderated forum, all messages must pass through the
moderation bot before they hit the network. Things that must be true
for the message to be approved:
o The message must have a subject tag, or some text inside a pair
of square brackets at the beginning of the subject line. This can
be anything, but should be something that indicates what the post
is going to be about in general. Sample valid subject lines:
[ADMIN] Welcome to news.admin.net-abuse.policy!
Re: [ADMIN] Is this group still on?
[email] About that new spam bill...
[AIM] AOL to start selling usernames to spammers!
[usenet] Posting binaries to comp.binaries.*
Sample Invalid:
(ADMIN) Welcome to news.admin.net-abuse.policy!
{ADMIN} Is this group still on?
o The message must not be a binary, or formatted in HTML. It should
be formatted in standard, ASCII-formatted text (or whatever Usenet
turns into over the years).
o The message must have less than 70% quoted text.
o The message must not be clearly off-topic or abusive. This is
accomplished through basic pattern matching on the headers or body
of the message, and is only implemented when there is a problem.
If all of these criteria are passed, then the message is approved and an
approval notice is sent back to the poster. If the post is not
approved, then a rejection notice is sent back to the poster. Note that
these notices will not arrive if the return address is faked; as such,
use of spamblocked addresses is discouraged.
WHAT TO POST
============
Anything regarding actual abuse of a shared public network such as the
Internet, Usenet, IRC, AIM, or other similar networks is on-topic in
NANAP. This includes spam of all sorts, mailbombings, system security,
legal workings as regards to abuse, blocklisting, and anything that
would be on-topic anywhere in the news.admin.net-abuse.* hierarchy,
What is not on-topic is discussion of abuse *on* the net, except in as
much as it relates to abuse *of* the net, such as flamewars and
off-topic posts. Specifically, ongoing personal fights and flamewars
from other groups will not be allowed in NANAP.
ORIGINAL CHARTER
================
The following charter was set down in 1996, when the group was created.
Remarkably, it is still essentially correct.
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.
News.admin.net-abuse.policy is a moderated forum. The robomoderator
of the group will disallow any and all crossposted messages, message
spews, binary messages, and any possible attacks on the group as
required.
News.admin.net-abuse.policy is moderated by a robot moderator,
hosted on robomod.net. The robot will automatically approve and
post messages that:
o Are not crossposted.
o Contain only text formatted for <78 columns, excepting quoted
material.
o Cannot be determined to directly violate the charter of the
group by the robot moderator alone (for which the criterion will
be published.)
Messages not approved by the robot moderator will be sent back to
the sender. Changes to the robot moderator can only be enacted by a
majority vote of the then-current operators; similarly, operators
can be added or removed by a majority vote of the then-current
operators.
The news.admin.net-abuse.* hierarchy is for discussion of abuse of
Usenet and/or the Internet; it is not for discussion of abuse of
groups or individuals on such networks, such as flames, personal
attacks, or off-topic messages.
Binaries are specifically prohibited from all groups in the
news.admin.* hierarchy, except as examples of other abuse. All
messages removed by unauthorized cancels in the hierarchy will be
automatically reposted by Dave the Resurrector or a similar program,
at the discretion of the group moderator or, for the unmoderated
groups, the operator of the resurrector program. Spams, gateway
spews, and other attacks on the system itself will be removed as
appropriate, following standard Usenet guidelines.
There have been some changes to the effective charter of the group
through the years.
CURRENT MODERATION INFORMATION
==============================
NANAP is hosted on Robomod.net, courtesy of Brian Edmonds.
Kathy Morgan is currently the moderator of NANAP.
Moderator: kmo...@spamcop.net (Kathy Morgan)
Admin Contact Address:
news-admin-net-abu...@robomod.net
Article Submission Address:
news-admin-net-abu...@robomod.net
Archives are available through groups.google.com. Tim Skirvin has also
written a public web interface to the group, available at:
http://news.killfile.org/
shared networks, or 'net-abuse'. It is a robo-moderated forum,
controlled by a moderation 'bot that automatically
approves anything that it thinks is an on-topic post.
HOW TO POST
===========
(This section assumes that you already know how to post to Usenet
newsgroups in general.)
As NANAP is a robomoderated forum, all messages must pass through the
moderation bot before they hit the network. Things that must be true
for the message to be approved:
o The message must have a subject tag, or some text inside a pair
of square brackets at the beginning of the subject line. This can
be anything, but should be something that indicates what the post
is going to be about in general. Sample valid subject lines:
[ADMIN] Welcome to news.admin.net-abuse.policy!
Re: [ADMIN] Is this group still on?
[email] About that new spam bill...
[AIM] AOL to start selling usernames to spammers!
[usenet] Posting binaries to comp.binaries.*
Sample Invalid:
(ADMIN) Welcome to news.admin.net-abuse.policy!
{ADMIN} Is this group still on?
o The message must not be a binary, or formatted in HTML. It should
be formatted in standard, ASCII-formatted text (or whatever Usenet
turns into over the years).
o The message must have less than 70% quoted text.
o The message must not be clearly off-topic or abusive. This is
accomplished through basic pattern matching on the headers or body
of the message, and is only implemented when there is a problem.
If all of these criteria are passed, then the message is approved and an
approval notice is sent back to the poster. If the post is not
approved, then a rejection notice is sent back to the poster. Note that
these notices will not arrive if the return address is faked; as such,
use of spamblocked addresses is discouraged.
WHAT TO POST
============
Anything regarding actual abuse of a shared public network such as the
Internet, Usenet, IRC, AIM, or other similar networks is on-topic in
NANAP. This includes spam of all sorts, mailbombings, system security,
legal workings as regards to abuse, blocklisting, and anything that
would be on-topic anywhere in the news.admin.net-abuse.* hierarchy,
What is not on-topic is discussion of abuse *on* the net, except in as
much as it relates to abuse *of* the net, such as flamewars and
off-topic posts. Specifically, ongoing personal fights and flamewars
from other groups will not be allowed in NANAP.
ORIGINAL CHARTER
================
The following charter was set down in 1996, when the group was created.
Remarkably, it is still essentially correct.
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.
News.admin.net-abuse.policy is a moderated forum. The robomoderator
of the group will disallow any and all crossposted messages, message
spews, binary messages, and any possible attacks on the group as
required.
News.admin.net-abuse.policy is moderated by a robot moderator,
hosted on robomod.net. The robot will automatically approve and
post messages that:
o Are not crossposted.
o Contain only text formatted for <78 columns, excepting quoted
material.
o Cannot be determined to directly violate the charter of the
group by the robot moderator alone (for which the criterion will
be published.)
Messages not approved by the robot moderator will be sent back to
the sender. Changes to the robot moderator can only be enacted by a
majority vote of the then-current operators; similarly, operators
can be added or removed by a majority vote of the then-current
operators.
The news.admin.net-abuse.* hierarchy is for discussion of abuse of
Usenet and/or the Internet; it is not for discussion of abuse of
groups or individuals on such networks, such as flames, personal
attacks, or off-topic messages.
Binaries are specifically prohibited from all groups in the
news.admin.* hierarchy, except as examples of other abuse. All
messages removed by unauthorized cancels in the hierarchy will be
automatically reposted by Dave the Resurrector or a similar program,
at the discretion of the group moderator or, for the unmoderated
groups, the operator of the resurrector program. Spams, gateway
spews, and other attacks on the system itself will be removed as
appropriate, following standard Usenet guidelines.
There have been some changes to the effective charter of the group
through the years.
CURRENT MODERATION INFORMATION
==============================
NANAP is hosted on Robomod.net, courtesy of Brian Edmonds.
Kathy Morgan is currently the moderator of NANAP.
Moderator: kmo...@spamcop.net (Kathy Morgan)
Admin Contact Address:
news-admin-net-abu...@robomod.net
Article Submission Address:
news-admin-net-abu...@robomod.net
Archives are available through groups.google.com. Tim Skirvin has also
written a public web interface to the group, available at:
http://news.killfile.org/
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