The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE) 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. Other CAUCE chapters were formed in Canada, Europe (where they were among the first to lobby for effective anti-spam legislation) and Australia. CAUCE India was formed in the late 1990s. It is also a member of the Anti-Spyware Coalition.