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	Usenet cabal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 Lspace cabal (TINC) of Alt.Fan.Pratchett (which is an actual organisation, consisting of the four men who own the lspace.org domain name and run its services, 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Usenet_cabal (278 words)

	Learn more about Usenet in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Usenet is of significant cultural importance in the networked world, having given rise to, or popularized, many widely recognized concepts and terms such as "FAQ" and "spam".
		Usenet is one of the oldest computer network communications systems still in widespread use; it existed before the popularization of the Internet and well before the World Wide Web.
		Usenet was invented in 1979 as one application of the UUCP protocol which allowed Unix machines to exchange data over telephone lines.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /u/us/usenet.html (1922 words)

	Usenet - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name.
		Usenet was thus one of the first peer-to-peer applications, although in this case the "peers" are themselves servers that the users then access, rather than the users themselves being peers on the network.
		One difference between Usenet and newer peer-to-peer applications is that the one can request the automated removal of a posting from the whole network by creating a cancel message, although due to a lack of authentication and resultant abuse, this capability is frequently disabled.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /usenet.htm (3067 words)

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		Usenet has many of the characteristics of an independent subculture, such as a particular grapholect, a special net etiquette, or 'Netiquette,' and customs and traditions different from the many external cultures in which it is embedded.
		Usenet affects and is affected by its environment; for instance, it has been argued that Usenet affected, and was affected by, the development of the ARPAnet (a government-sponsored computer network) during 1980-1981.
		Usenet is still in a tribal state of society where affinity groups and informal power cliques are as numerous and ephemeral as snowflakes on a bleak winter's day.
	eserver.org /internet/Hardy-Usenet-System.txt (5745 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)

	There Is No Cabal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As Usenet has few technologically or legally enforced hierarchies, just about the only ones that formed were social hierarchies.
		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 was little more than social authority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/There_is_no_Cabal (194 words)

	The Great Renaming FAQ
		Usenet was created in late 1979 as the Unix User Network when Duke University graduate students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, decided to connect computers together in order for the Unix community to communicate.
		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.
	www.linux.it /~md/usenet/gr.html (1583 words)

	Usenet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Usenet, or Unix User Network is a communications medium in which users read and post textual messages (called "articles") to a number of distributed newsgroups (incorrectly called bulletin boards because of their similarity for the unaware observer).
		Usenet is one of the oldest computer network communications systems still in widespread use.
		"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea — massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Usenet (2186 words)

	Usenet - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The difference to mailing lists, though, is that Usenet requires no personal registration with the group concerned (subscription is necessary only to keep track of which articles you've already read), that archives are always available, and that reading the messages requires no mail client, but a news client (included in most modern browsers).
		Aside from UUCP, Usenet articles were also gatewayed onto Fidonet echomail and other dial-up BBS networks.
		Since the Internet boom of the 1990s, almost all Usenet distribution is over NNTP, making the earlier dictum that "Usenet is not the Internet" seem somewhat quaint.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Usenet (2289 words)

	Backbone cabal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		During most of its lifetime, the Cabal (sometimes (Click link for more info and facts about capitalized) capitalized) steadfastly denied its own existence; it was almost obligatory for anyone
		Usenet or (A computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange) Internet.
		These paranoias were later satirized in ways that took on a life of their own.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/backbone_cabal.htm (239 words)

	Backbone cabal
		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 Spafford[?] is said to have organized the backbone in 1983 to stabilize the Usenet propagation.
		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.
	www.wordlookup.net /ba/backbone-cabal.html (267 words)

	An Alternative Primer on Free Speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cabal - Those net citizens who by their own consensus reality, set themselves apart from and superior to usenet users and use this illusory superiority to restrict or censor any usenet user's attempts at communication through usenet.
		Thus anyone denying the Cabal's existance is attempting to hide the fact that it does exist, which helps the Cabal and therefore implies that the denyer is a Cabal member themselves.
		Another change instituted by the Cabal a few years ago is the requirement that before a new group proposal even gets to the uvv 'vote', it must go through a cabal screening process known as 'group-advice'.
	www.jetcafe.org /~dave/usenet/freedom.html (6531 words)

	Control, Change and the Internet - ch2: Bye-Bye, Backbone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although USENET was not part of ARPANET or the Internet (which didn't even exist in 1979, except on paper), it evolved in a similar environment: that of American universities using the UNIX operating system on their computers.
		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.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~qbird/cci-ch2.htm (2947 words)

	Meatball Wiki: UseNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Perhaps the best description of UseNet (by one of its most respected leaders) is the "What is Usenet FAQ": [1].
		Originally UseNet was essentially controlled by the members of the "backbone cabal", which decided whether to carry newsgroups or not.
		Now UseNet had always had the philosophy that you gain nothing by not creating a popular newsgroup: the discussion will just take place elsewhere.
	www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?UseNet (652 words)

	There is no Cabal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		See backbone cabal, usenet cabal, and news.admin.net-abuse.usenet, but note that this abbreviation did not enter use until longafter the dispersal of the backbone cabal.
		As Usenet has few technologically or legally enforced hierarchies, just aboutthe only ones which formed were social hierarchies.
		Thus groups of people with authority and power did so with what in a traditional society would be considered extralegal means— they were, in some sense, cabals.
	www.therfcc.org /there-is-no-cabal-103798.html (173 words)

	Usenet cabal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Usenet cabal is a supposedly mythical organisation which apparentlymoderated 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 thenegative acronym appended).
		This group was often knownas the backbone cabal, which consisted of a number of large "backbone"sites that distributed most of the Usenet traffic.
	www.therfcc.org /usenet-cabal-106059.html (243 words)

	The world's top Usenet websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The counterpoint to this argument is that being text-based makes Usenet more accessible to visually imparied computer users who use text-reading software to navigate through the Internet.
		"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea — massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." — Gene Spafford
		Usenet providers and other organizations, who are running a Usenet server, looking for Usenet peers can enter their information on the website if they want to be contacted by others in the Usenet community.
	dirs.org /dir-wiki.cfm/Top/Computers/Usenet (2651 words)

	There is no Cabal : TINC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		See backbone cabal usenet cabal and news.admin.net-abuse.usenet[?], but note that this abbreviation did not enter use until long after the dispersal of the backbone cabal.
		As Usenet has few technologically or legally enforced hierarchies, just about the only ones which formed were social hierarchies.
		In other sense, they were not cabals, since their power was little more than social authority.
	www.eurofreehost.com /ti/TINC.html (256 words)

	Usenet cabal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Usenet cabal is a supposedly mythical organisation which moderated all groups and generally controlled the of Usenet newsgroup traffic; any direct mention of them generally followed by the abbreviation TINC - There Is No Cabal.
		There is no cabal but there was an effective cabal in the early of Usenet.
		This group was often known the backbone cabal which consisted of a number of "backbone" sites that distributed most of the traffic.
	www.freeglossary.com /Usenet_cabal (649 words)

	Usenet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		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.
		During most of its lifetime, the Cabal (sometimes majuscule) 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.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Usenet (227 words)

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		The "Usenet Global Killfile" is, in the common parlance, a troll.
		The heart of the matter here is: there is _no_ _such_ _thing_ as a "Usenet Global Killfile." Really, this should be close to intuitively obvious for anyone with a passing familiarity with the INN software.
		Muah hah hah hah hah...] All hail the Cabal.
	web.elastic.org /~fche/mirrors/old-usenet/net (529 words)

	Be Careful What You Ask For - You May GET IT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Usenet has more of its share of conspiracy theorists and kooks and this group has been created for the discussion of these people.
		Usenet awards apply only to Kooks in newsgroups; the Internet awards apply also to Email and web pages and anything else where the Internet functions; lifetime achievement and memorial awards are given once only in recognition of highly sore-thumb-outstanding loony behavior.
		The Cabal Obsidian Order is a profoundly secret collective of operatives designed to outrun, outgun and eliminate the most vile scum and villainy the net has to offer.
	www.lart.com /auk/aukfaq.html (3250 words)

	Nothing Wicked This Way Comes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		White House, Monica was a staffer at The Cabal House.
		Usenet Cabal shares are traded on the NASDAQ.
		The Cabal is everywhere, especially where you least expect it.
	www.lart.com /cabal.html (1404 words)

	tiaUc There Is A Usenet Cabal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		tiaUc (THERE IS A USENET CABAL) The Usenet KOOKS alt.usenet.kooks have for years tried to spread their lies with TINC ("THERE IS NO CABAL") All those years we have remain hidden from their eyes and keeping the disguise until now.
		We are here to stay and and bring about change in Usenet.
		But now we the Cabal are going to bring about change.
	www.geocities.com /theusenetcabal (118 words)

	INWO Homebrew: Usenet Cabal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A computer showing a usenet browser on its screen.
		By spending it's action, the Cabal can cancel the action of any Computer Organisation or Pesonality.
		The Cabal can only do this once per turn, even if it has more then one action token.
	www.illuminated.co.uk /inwo/show.cgi?card=usenetcabal (71 words)

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		Well, the "first" flame war on "Usenet" took place even before it had a real name or cabal!
		Laura Creighton complained bitterly about Bill Joy having a halt instruction embedded in the middle of the BSD tape boot sequence, and not having it noted that the halt was normal behaviour and the "continue" should be pressed.
		Someone may want to double check the chronology around the Great Renaming, and the abdication of the Cabal.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/about-the-net/Usenet/usenet-wars (350 words)

	Usenet cabal - Infomations about Usenet cabal
		is self-declared "Master of the Usenet CABAL" < -- now that is nuts.
		there was an effective cabal in the early days of Usenet.
		Cabal - Those net citizens who by their own consensus reality, set...
	www.bizkitt.co.uk /Us/Usenet_cabal_54640.html (236 words)

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