NANA

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   [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. For example, NANAU would refer to
   news.admin.net-abuse.usenet.

   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  {backbone cabal}, or the Cabal reborn.
   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.

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {backbone cabal}{black hat}{Lumber Cartel}{TINC}]