NANA //
[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.
[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.
Related:
- TINC //
[Usenet] Abbreviation: "There Is No Cabal".
See backbone cabal and NANA, but note that this... - Lumber Cartel n.
A mythical conspiracy accused by
spam-spewers of funding anti-spam activism in order to force
the direct-mail promotions industry back onto paper.
Hackers, predictably, responded by forming a "Lumber... - backbone cabal 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.
During most of its lifetime, the Cabal (as it was... - spam vt.,vi.,n.
[from "Monty Python's Flying
Circus"] 1.
To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer... - jello n.
[Usenet: by analogy with spam] A message
that is both excessively cross-posted and too frequently posted,
as opposed to spam (which is merely too frequently... - velveeta n.
[Usenet: by analogy with spam] Also
knows as ECP;
a message that is excessively cross-posted, as opposed... - the network n.
1. Historicaslly, the union of all the major
noncommercial,
academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as ... - Dave the Resurrector n.
[Usenet; also abbreviated DtR]
A cancelbot that cancels cancels.
Dave the Resurrector originated when some spam-spewers... - 404 compliant adj.
The status of a website which has
been completely removed,
usually by the administrators of the hosting site...
From the same category:
- asbestos longjohns n.
Notional garments donned by
Usenet posters just before emitting a remark they expect will
elicit flamage.
This is the most common of the asbestos coinages... - Black Screen of Death n.
[prob. related to the
Floating Head of Death in a famous "Far Side" cartoon.] A
failure mode of Microsloth Windows.
On an attempt to launch a DOS box, a... - iron box n.
[Unix/Internet] A special environment set up to
trap a cracker logging in over remote connections long enough
to be traced.
May include a modified shell restricting the ... - boa [IBM] n.
Any one of the fat cables that lurk under the
floor in a dinosaur pen.
Possibly so called because they display a ferocious... - cycle of reincarnation n.
See wheel of reincarnation...
