backbone cabal
<networking> 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 cat-fight.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-28)
Nearby terms:
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