Welcome to the home of the FAQ for the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email. These documents aim to answer all your questions about Unsolicited Bulk Email, also known as spam.

	Spamfighting Overview Last modified 27-Dec-2003 This document offers a taste of the many techniques people use to fight spam. The objective isn't to teach you how to fight spam (there are many far superior documents that do just this), but rather to introduce some of the techniques you can use and refer you to some more detailed works.

	The Evils of Spam Last modified 27-Dec-2003 In here we cover the more ethical, moral and legal aspects of the spam issue, including precisely what constitutes spam and the types of people who become spammers.

	Understanding News.Admin.Net-Abuse.Email Last modified 27-Dec-2003 Finally, this document aims to introduce all of the weird, wonderful and sometimes impenetrable terminology that people use in news.admin.net-abuse.email (nanae). It covers both colloquialisms (e.g. "chickenboner") and technical terms (e.g. "direct-to-MX").

	Index The FAQs have grown rather large and unwieldy, so it can be difficult to find exactly what you want. To the rescue comes this handy index! Just find the word in the index and you'll find links directly to the relevant portions of the FAQs.

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