Offering resources for dealing with network abuse and spam, Abuse.net is home to the Network Abuse Clearinghouse. For users of the website, they provide books, software, websites and other tools to help deal with spam. Abuse.net is not a service which reports spam or feedback about spam sites. It is simply an educational website which provides information about identifying and reporting spam to the right place to get it stopped. The Abuse website is free of charge and does not accept or solicit contributions for their services although the Abuse.net website does suggest that if users of the site have found value in the tools provided that they donate to their local food bank.
The Abuse website provides tips for how to properly report abusive email or usenet messages. Abuse.net also offers detailed information on looking for websites on the featured database. For people receiving what they consider to be spam emails or messages, it can be difficult to determine where the message actually came from. The vast majority of abusive and spam mail has fake return address information included in the message. Simply replying to emails of this type is often not enough to get them to stop. That is where Abuse.net comes in – they provide information and resources to help consumers determine where the messages came from, and who to contact about them to get them to stop.
This website does not contact the sender of emails directly for users of Abuse.net. Rather, it provides information assisting users in reporting spam and abusive emails and messages on their own. The website lookup page on Abuse.net allows folks to search for specific domains in order to locate contact information for those sites. 
