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Backbone Cabal
/bak-ˈbōn kə-ˈbäl/
n. A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the
Great Renaming
and reined in the chaos of
USENET
during most of the 1980s. The cabal
mailing list
disbanded in late 1988 after a bitter internal catfight, but the net hardly noticed.
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