What are the news.admin.net-abuse groups, and why were they created?
Originally, news.admin.net-abuse.misc was created to replace alt.current-events.net-abuse and news.admin.policy. The former was one of the most widely read and respectable alt.* groups, while the latter had become largely a mess of messages cross-posted from a.c-e.n-a and news.admin.misc. news.admin.net-abuse.misc was then, not surprisingly, for discussions of net-abuse (see “What is net-abuse”, below): definitions, occurances, objections, complaints, battle plans, peace plans, etcetera. As you can guess, that generated amazing amounts of traffic. By early 1996, it had gotten to the point where it was impossible to keep up with the group without investing hours and hours of time. In November of 1996, after many months of hard work from Tim Skirvin and others, the news.admin.net-abuse.* groups were reorganized. The charters are stored at: http://www.uiuc.
