From tale@uunet.uu.net Mon Apr 10 10:37:10 1995
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From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 14:30:18 GMT
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news.admin.net-abuse.misc is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote
for creation by 442:91 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 4 Apr 1995.
This group supersedes news.admin.policy, which will be removed on 10 Jul 1995.

For your newsgroups file:
news.admin.net-abuse.misc	Network facility abuse, including spamming.

The charter, culled from the call for votes:

   news.admin.net-abuse.misc is for the discussion of possible abuses of
   netnews and e-mail. It is for the discussion of standards of net abuse,
   to suggest appropriate courses of action (if any) to net abuse and to
   post reports of alleged occurrences of net abuse. Relevant topics include
   events associated with net abuse such as: spamming (posting many
   individual copies of any article), excessive crossposting of non-germane
   articles, injection of malformed articles into the news system (broken
   gateways, for example), or other forms of "roboposting" involving large
   numbers of postings to one or more groups, forging identity of postings,
   forged approval to moderated groups, forged cancellation of articles
   including cancellation of net abuse articles, use of rmgroup/newgroup in
   an abusive manner, large-scale mailings to mailing lists or other
   mail-bombing, deciding what isn't net abuse, general issues of netiquette,
   methods for resolving conflicts, proposed blacklists and boycotts,
   "renegade" sites, etc.  Postings include news reports, reviews, and
   conferences, and net-abuse FAQs.  Although commercial posts are not
   inherently net-abuse, proper methods of posting commercial material are
   within the scope of this group.