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TINC // [Usenet] Abbreviation: "There Is No Cabal".
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TINC //
[Usenet] Abbreviation: "There Is No Cabal". See
backbone cabal and NANA, but note that this abbreviation
did not enter use until long after the dispersal of the backbone
cabal.
Related:
NANA // [Usenet] The newsgroups news.admin.net-abuse.
*, devoted to fighting spam and network abuse. Each individual newsgroup is often referred to by adding a letter to NANA....
backbone cabal n. A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of Usenet during most of the 1980s.
During most of its lifetime, the Cabal (as it was sometimes capitalized) steadfastly denied its own existence...
backbone cabal: n. A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the {Great Renaming} and reined in the chaos of {USENET} during most of the 1980s.
The cabal {mailing list} disbanded in late 1988 after a bitter internal catfight....
Lumber Cartel n. A mythical conspiracy accused by spam-spewers of funding anti-spam activism in order to force the direct-mail promotions industry back onto paper.
Hackers, predictably, responded by forming a "Lumber Cartel" spoofing this paranoid theory...
TINLC // Abbreviation: "There Is No Lumber Cartel".
See Lumber Cartel. TINLC is a takeoff on TINC....
If the telephone rings today..... water it! -- Rev. Thomas, Gnostic N.Y.C. Cabal
GoAT // [Usenet] Abbreviation: "Go Away, Troll". See troll.
Why is "abbreviation" such a long word?
There is no IGLU Cabal! None of them could pass the Turing test.
But strangely enough a computer program they coded, could....