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backbone cabal
     
         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)