CAUCE
Encyclopedia
CAUCE, or the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, is a non-profit advocacy group
that works to reduce the amount of unsolicited commercial email, or spam
, via legislation. CAUCE was founded in 1997 by participants in the USENET
newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email
and the SPAM-L mailing list.
CAUCE North America was formed in March 2007 from a merger between the very first CAUCE, CAUCE US and CAUCE Canada, combining the strengths of the two sibling CAUCE organizations. CAUCE NA, as an all-volunteer consumer advocacy organization, has moved beyond its original mission of encouraging the creation and adoption of anti-spam laws to a broader stance of defending the interests of the average Internet user.
Other CAUCE chapters were formed in Canada, Europe (where they were among the first to lobby for effective antispam legislation) and Australia. CAUCE India was formed in the late 1990s.
In 2003, APCAUCE (CAUCE Asia Pacific) was formed to bring together CAUCE chapters in the Asia Pacific region, and hosts technical workshops and policy roundtable "regional update" sessions at regional network operator conferences such as SANOG
and APRICOT
It is also a member of the Anti-Spyware Coalition
.
Advocacy group
Advocacy groups use various forms of advocacy to influence public opinion and/or policy; they have played and continue to play an important part in the development of political and social systems...
that works to reduce the amount of unsolicited commercial email, or spam
E-mail spam
Email spam, also known as junk email or unsolicited bulk email , is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by email. Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. One subset of UBE is UCE...
, via legislation. CAUCE was founded in 1997 by participants in the USENET
Usenet
Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...
newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email
News.admin.net-abuse.email
news.admin.net-abuse.email is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to discussion of the abuse of email systems, specifically through spam and similar attacks...
and the SPAM-L mailing list.
CAUCE North America was formed in March 2007 from a merger between the very first CAUCE, CAUCE US and CAUCE Canada, combining the strengths of the two sibling CAUCE organizations. CAUCE NA, as an all-volunteer consumer advocacy organization, has moved beyond its original mission of encouraging the creation and adoption of anti-spam laws to a broader stance of defending the interests of the average Internet user.
Other CAUCE chapters were formed in Canada, Europe (where they were among the first to lobby for effective antispam legislation) and Australia. CAUCE India was formed in the late 1990s.
In 2003, APCAUCE (CAUCE Asia Pacific) was formed to bring together CAUCE chapters in the Asia Pacific region, and hosts technical workshops and policy roundtable "regional update" sessions at regional network operator conferences such as SANOG
SANOG
The South Asian Network Operators' Group is a South Asian counterpart to NANOG. Like NANOG, SANOG operates a mailing list for operators of Asian data networks, including ISPs....
and APRICOT
Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies
The Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies is the annual Internet operations conference for the Asia-Pacific region....
It is also a member of the Anti-Spyware Coalition
Anti-Spyware Coalition
The Anti-Spyware Coalition is a group dedicated to building a consensus about definitions and best practices in the debate surrounding spyware and other potentially unwanted technologies....
.