news.admin.net-abuse.email (sometimes abbreviated nanae[1] or n.a.n-a.e, and often incorrectly spelled with a hyphen in "email") is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to discussion of the abuse of email systems, specifically through email spam and similar attacks.
According to a timeline compiled by Keith Lynch,[2] news.admin.net-abuse.email was the first widely available electronic forum for discussing spam.
Steve Linford, the founder of The Spamhaus Project, sometimes posts in the newsgroup.
In its original charter the following examples of "on-topic" areas were listed: Eventually, by mutual consent, it was also determined that the following were also "on-topic": 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.
[4] In September 2002 it was proposed that a subgroup, news.admin.net-abuse.email.blocklists, be created.