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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>NANA</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="NAK.html" title="NAK"/><link rel="next" href="nano.html" title="nano"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">NANA</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NAK.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nano.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="NANA"/><dt xmlns="" id="NANA"><b>NANA</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] The newsgroups news.admin.net-abuse.*, devoted to fighting
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<a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a> and network abuse. Each individual newsgroup is
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often referred to by adding a letter to NANA. For example, NANAU would
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refer to <tt class="systemitem">news.admin.net-abuse.usenet</tt>.</p><p>When spam began to be a serious problem around 1995, and a loose
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network of anti-spammers formed to combat it, spammers immediately accused
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them of being the <a href="../B/backbone-cabal.html"><i class="glossterm">backbone cabal</i></a>, or the Cabal
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reborn. Though this was not true, spam-fighters ironically accepted the
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label and the tag line “<span class="quote">There is No Cabal</span>” reappeared (later,
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and now commonly, abbreviated to “<span class="quote">TINC</span>”). Nowadays “<span class="quote">the
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Cabal</span>” is generally understood to refer to the NANA regulars.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NAK.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nano.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">NAK </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> nano</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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