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	Cabal
		A cabal is a number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junta.
		Cabal is the name of a novel by Clive Barker, which was subsequently made into the movie Nightbreed[?].
		The Cabal is of a species known as the Suliban.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Cabal.html (311 words)

	Usenet cabal
		A Usenet cabal is a supposedly mythical organisation which apparently moderated all groups and generally controlled the whole of Usenet newsgroup traffic; any direct mention of them is generally followed by the abbreviation TINC - There Is No Cabal.
		After this theory was publicised (and largely refuted), many 'Cabals' sprung up throughout Usenet, like the LspaceCabal[?] (TINC) of Alt.Fan.Pratchett (which is an actual organisation, but any mention of it still has the negative acronym appended).
		This group was often known as the backbone cabal, which consisted of a number of large "backbone" sites that distributed most of the Usenet traffic.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/UsenetCabal.html (246 words)

	The Great Renaming FAQ
		The "backbone" was simply a group of hosts whose admins agreed to form such a connected set, and to devote whatever resources were necessary to carry all the Usenet traffic and to pass it on promptly (rather than, say, waiting for overnight when their machine was less busy, as other sites often did).
		The mythological "Usenet Cabal," which is often referred to jokingly in passing was originally the "Backbone Cabal." The Cabal was a group of site admins and their close friends who participated in a mailing list created to encourage stable news and mail softare.
		The Backbone Cabal was dead, and the "Usenet Cabal" myth was born.
	www.livinginternet.com /u/ui_modern_renamingfaq.htm (2463 words)

	Jargon 4.2, node: backbone cabal
		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; it was almost obligatory for anyone privy to their secrets to respond "There is no Cabal" whenever the existence or activities of the group were speculated on in public.
		Even a decade after the cabal mailing list disbanded in late 1988 following a bitter internal catfight, many people believed (or claimed to believe) that it had not actually disbanded but only gone deeper underground with its power intact.
	www.science.uva.nl /~mes/jargon/b/backbonecabal.html (167 words)

	Backbone cabal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The backbone cabal was a group (or cabal) of large-site administrators who pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of Usenet during most of the 1980s.
		Credit for organizing the backbone about 1983 is variously claimed for Mark Horton [1] or Gene "Spaf" Spafford [2], in an effort to stabilize the Usenet propagation.
		These paranoias were later satirized in ways that took on a life of their own.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Backbone_cabal (287 words)

	The Great Renaming FAQ
		The Cabal was strongest during this period: backbone sites refused to carry groups they considered stupid.
		During the Cabal's last days, its death was quickened by the "comp.women" debacle, as it was later known.
		The Cabal's last act, according too Jim Jewett, was to " sanction Ed Vielmetti's rush creation of comp.sys.next." Regardless, the Backbone Cabal was dead, and the "Usenet Cabal" myth was born.
	www.linux.it /~md/usenet/gr3.htm (689 words)

	Control, Change and the Internet - ch2: Bye-Bye, Backbone
		The USENET backbone existed because the network in the early eighties was small and obscure, and news traffic had to pass through a small number of nodes controlled by one (albeit loose) group - the Backbone Cabal.
		There were some newsgroups that the Backbone Cabal simply would not condone, such as those discussing sex and drugs, partly because of their conservatism, partly out of concern that their bosses would shut down all USENET feeds if they found out that the network was carrying that sort of traffic.
		NSFNET Backbone services are provided to support open research and education in and among U. research and instructional institutions, plus research arms of for-profit firms when engaged in open scholarly communication and research.
	home.iprimus.com.au /qbird01/qb-atwork/cci-ch2.htm (2947 words)

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		For instance, during the "breaking of the backbone cabal" and when AT&T shut down two of the major news gateways, Usenet found alternate distribution routes and continued to grow unabated.
		The "Breaking of the Backbone Cabal" occurred when administrators of the APRAnet (now Internet--NSF, soon to be NREN) backbone declined to carry newsgroups dealing with recreational sex and drugs.
		Following the abdication of the Backbone Cabal oligarchy, Usenet was proclaimed to be the worlds foremost example of a working cooperative "anarchy" and it has remained so ever since.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/communications/papers/history/usnt300.txt (5770 words)

	The Great Renaming FAQ
		The mythological "Usenet Cabal," often referred to jokingly during debates over new newsgroups, actually existed in the form of the "Backbone Cabal." Gene "father of the Backbone" began a listserv in 1983 made up of group of site admins and their close friends devoted to encouraging stable news and mail software.
		Some worried that the Backbone Cabal, which was made up of a small group of male computer experts in their 20's and 30's, would be deciding the newsgroups names for the entire, diverse Usenet community.
		In responce, the Cabal and its cronies often reiterated a magic phrase: "Usenet works by the golden rule: whoever has the gold, makes the rules." In other words, they would refused to pay the long-distance transmission charges for groups they didn't like.
	www.uncommon-sense.net /interests/usenet/renaming-faq/gr1.html (1581 words)

	Modern Usenet Newsgroup Hierarchies History
		After this event, these original administrators came to be called "The Backbone Cabal".
		This didn't work very well because people resented being pigeon-holed, and so the talk hierarchy withered until the explosion on the Usenet from 1995 onwards when the volume of conversation on the hierarchy began to grow again.
		The Usenet network backbone was created by Gene Spafford in 1983, and formalized by him in 1986, as described below.
	www.livinginternet.com /u/ui_modern.htm (542 words)

	The Great Renaming FAQ
		Reid created the first alt.* group, alt.gourmand, because the Cabal wanted to put his recipe group under rec.food.* (According to Weiner, Reid didn't want the group in rec.* at all.) Reid, who was moderating mod.recipes, objected to the name rec.food.recipes because there were non-food recipes.
		There was a lot of sex-related traffic being carried in soc.singles at the time, and the talk.bizarre readers of the time would not let an idea like that go, so the idea took on a life of its own.
		According to Peter daSilva, this was all happening during a time when the Backbone Cabal was beginning to experiment with interest polls.
	www.linux.it /~md/usenet/gr2.htm (754 words)

	Meatball Wiki: UseNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Originally UseNet was essentially controlled by the members of the "backbone cabal", which decided whether to carry newsgroups or not.
		The backbone cabal refused to carry rec.sex on any of their systems.
		The group was proposed as a way to prod the backbone cabal: to prove that they didn't care beans for votes.
	www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?UseNet (652 words)

	[FAQ] The Lspace.org Domain
		From: The L-Space Cabal Subject: [FAQ] The Lspace.org Domain Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett,alt.fan.pratchett.announce,alt.books.pratchett Summary: This FAQ provides information about the lspace.org domain and the services it provides.
		Followup-To: poster Organization: L-Space Keywords: Pratchett Discworld FAQ L-Space Cabal lspace.org Approved: afpa-mod@lspace.org X-Autoposter: This FAQ was autoposted by X-Archive-name: pratchett/lspace-faq X-Posting-Frequency: monthly (on the 7th) X-Last-modified: 23 January 2005 X-URL: Archive-name: pratchett/lspace-faq Posting-Frequency: monthly (on the 7th) Last-modified: 23 January 2005 URL: Changes: + Fixed a broken link.
		Lspacers who maintain a specific service do control that service, of course, and this does make the Cabal in particular a rather "powerful" entity, but that is not intrinsically related to the presence of an lspace.org address, and any such power certainly stops at the newsgroup or IRC channel border.
	www.lspace.org /faqs/lspace-faq.g.html (1640 words)

	Backbone cabal - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The backbone cabal was a group of large-site administrators who pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of Usenet during most of the 1980s.
		Gene "Spaf" Spafford is said to have organized the backbone in 1983 to stabilize the Usenet propagation.
		http://www-cse.stanford.edu/classes/cs201/projects-98-99/controlling-the-virtual-world/history/rename.html, http://www.vrx.net/usenet/history/rename/ While many news servers operated during night time to save the cost of long distance communication, servers of the backbone were available 24 hours a day.
	www.music.us /education/B/Backbone-cabal.htm (478 words)

	Teal Sunglasses: Dear Dave... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Cabal had a very distinct and strong vision of what USENET should be when it grew up (and I think that vision was a good one); when USENET grew up, however, the users didn't completely agree with the vision the Cabal had for USENET.
		Eventually enough people disagreed with the Cabal that they were able to route around the Cabal and displace them from the position of power.
		You're sounding a lot like I did during the latter days of the Backbone Cabal, and neither of us should be proud of that.
	www.plaidworks.com /chuqui/blog/000516.html (1525 words)

	There Is No Cabal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		People exerted power through force of will (often via intimidating flames), garnering authority and respect by contributing to the community (by being a maintainer of a FAQ, for example), or through sheer persistence, spending more time and writing more posts than anyone else (see Kibo, etc.).
		Thus groups of people with authority and power gained and maintained it by what in a traditional society would be considered extralegal means; they were, in some sense, cabals.
		In another sense they were not cabals, since their power did not extend beyond much more than social authority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/There_is_no_Cabal (222 words)

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		The power of the backbone cabal held through the time of the Great Renaming, when the old net., fa. and mod.* was transformed overnight into the "Seven sisters" of {comp,misc,news,rec,sci,soc, and talk}, plus a smattering of local hierarchies.
		It was noted that postings were voluntary, and that the backbone considered all postings to be essentially placed in the public domain.
		There was no backbone cabal to contact the new site admin and assure the net that the new site understood the voluntary nature of the association.
	www.columbia.edu /~hauben/CS/net_cult_assumpt.txt (2734 words)

	Sample Chapter from MicrosoftÂ® Internet and Networking Dictionary by Microsoft Corporation
		The backbones of the Internet, including communications carriers such as Sprint and MCI, can span thousands of miles using microwave relays and dedicated lines.
		In a local area network, a backbone may be a bus.
		On the Internet, a term for the group of network administrators responsible for naming the hierarchy of Usenet newsgroups and devising the procedures for creating new newsgroups.
	www.microsoft.com /mspress/books/sampchap/6324.aspx (4856 words)

	Meatball Wiki: UseNetCabal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Also known as the "backbone cabal," in the early days of netnews there was a group of system administrators who utilized their technical authority to impose their decisions upon others, blocking the creation of newsgroups that they personally disliked, for example, even when they had been approved by the (then fledgling) process for such matters.
		The backbone cabal was one in a number of early examples of TechnoCracy.
		I'll add that the newsgroups they blocked weren't typically a matter of "personal dislike", it was more a concern about using their organization's money to propagate things wildly inappropriate or disagreeable to management.
	www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?UseNetCabal (446 words)

	1989 Fools: April Fools called off! - April Fools on the Net
		"Look at it from the point of view of a professional parodist," stated Greg Woods, honorary chairman of UGH and the official Backbone Cabal representative to the organization.
		It shows how useful the Backbone really was, but it's not parody material.
		We talked about this during the Backbone Cabal BOF and Orgy at Usenix, since we were worried even then, but nothing came of it." In a related announcement, Woods announced the first USENET Computer Network Parody Annual.
	www.2meta.com /april-fools/1989/April-Fools-called-off.html (648 words)

	Control, Change and the Internet - ch3: The (almost) All-American Network
		Even if Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn were not aware of this non-technical baggage in their design, as the Internet grew beyond its original ARPANET nodes throughout the 1980s, these unintended features of the Internet played an important part in the development of online communities.
		But such hierarchies (like the USENET Backbone Cabal) cannot control the Internet, and are in fact undermined by it.
		Netiquette 'rules' were later codified by none other than Gene Spafford, the original organiser of the Backbone Cabal.
	home.iprimus.com.au /qbird01/qb-atwork/cci-ch3.htm (2285 words)

	Usenet note: Technology, Practice, Statistics
		a fair, a cocktail party, a town meeting, the notes of a secret cabal, the chatter in the hallway at a conference, the sounds of a friday night fish fry, post-coital gossip, the conversations overhead in an airplane waiting lounge that launched a company, and a bunch of other things.
		A Usenet backbone was created by Gene Spafford in 1983 to rationalise propagation of Usenet news.
		The 'Great Renaming' of 1986 saw restructuring of Usenet, with establishment of several new main hierarchies (comp, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, talk) in addition to the existing net, mod and fa.
	www.caslon.com.au /usenetnote.htm (2321 words)

	Backbone cabal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		During most of its lifetime, the Cabal (sometimes capitalized) steadfastly denied its own existence; it was almost obligatory for anyone
		privy to their secrets to respond "There is no Cabal" whenever the existence or activities of the group were speculated on in public.
		This belief became a model for various paranoid theories about various Cabals with dark nefarious objectives beginning with taking over the
	backbone-cabal.peernet.sk (244 words)

	Internet History
		ARPANET's role as network backbone was taken over by NSFNET which may in time be in turn be supplanted by the National Research and Educational Network (NREN).
		The intent was to rationalize the retransmission of Usenet news.
		THE "BREAKING OF THE BACKBONE CABAL" The "Breaking of the Backbone Cabal" occurred when administrators of the Usenet backbone declined to carry newsgroups dealing with recreational sex and drugs.
	www.demillo.com /internet_history.htm (8625 words)

	NANA - The Jargon File v4.4.7
		When spam began to be a serious problem around 1995, and a loose network of anti-spammers formed to combat it, spammers immediately accused them of being the
		Though this was not true, spam-fighters ironically accepted the label and the tag line “There is No Cabal” reappeared (later, and now commonly, abbreviated to “TINC”).
		Nowadays “the Cabal” is generally understood to refer to the NANA regulars.
	www.retrologic.com /jargon/N/NANA.html (105 words)

	Torak - Life since the Internet - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The demise of the original backbone was accompanied by several changes in Usenet.
		The "Breaking of the Backbone Cabal" occurred when administrators of the Usenet backbone declined to carry newsgroups dealing with recreational sex and drugs.
		In 1986, there was a schism in Fidonet which was in some ways parallel to the "Breaking of the Backbone Cabal" on Usenet.
	www.torak.com /tutorial/history_hardy.php (8886 words)

	Usenet is Still a Strange Place \| Linux Journal
		In the time between 1986 and 1987, the main top hierarchies were created, including comp, misc, news, rec, sci, soc and talk.
		Brian Reid, as many other Usenet users, was still not quite happy with this structure--the Backbone Cabal, for example, was unwilling to create rec.drugs and planned on dropping net.flame.
		Fewer people were using UUCP; NNTP became more and more popular; the Internet itself spread around the globe; Backbone Cabal became more and more silent and eventually was declared dead.
	www.linuxjournal.com /article/4500 (4047 words)

	High Density's Glossary of Internet Terms
		The term is relative as a backbone in a small network will likely be much smaller than many non-backbone lines in a large network.
		The cabal mailing list disbanded in late 1988 after a bitter internal catfight, but the net hardly noticed.
		Notable backbone sites as of early 1991 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University, and the University of Texas.
	www.high-density.com /glossary/glossary-b.htm (11675 words)

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