2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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// [Usenet] The newsgroups news.admin.net-abuse.*, devoted to fighting spam
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and network abuse. Each individual newsgroup is often referred to by adding
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a letter to NANA. For example, NANAU would refer to
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news.admin.net-abuse.usenet. When spam began to be a serious problem around
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1995, and a loose network of anti-spammers formed to combat it, spammers
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immediately accused them of being the backbone cabal , or the Cabal reborn.
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Though this was not true, spam-fighters ironically accepted the label and
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the tag line There is No Cabal reappeared (later, and now commonly,
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abbreviated to TINC ). Nowadays the Cabal is generally understood to refer
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to the NANA regulars.
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