The backbone cabal was an informal organization of large-site administrators of the worldwide distributed newsgroup-based discussion system Usenet.

The result of this policy was an aura of mystery, even a decade after the cabal mailing list disbanded in late 1988 following an internal fight.

A Cabal room in use at Valve Software. During the rise of Usenet, the term was used as a semi-ironic description of the efforts of people to maintain some order over the chaotic, anarchic Usenet community ( see backbone cabal ).

Each cabal was usually dedicated to one very specific area of the game which meant the cabal had to meet very regularly, in the case of Half-Life the members had to meet four days a week, six hours a day for five months.

The first came in an accusation by former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, who claimed that the Bush administration's foreign policy was run by a " Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal " implying a sinister intent ;

The second was by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has rallied the world community to support UN sanctions against Zimbabwe, denouncing the regime's leaders as a " criminal cabal ".

In 1149 he was murdered by a cabal of relatives and nobles, who made his cousin Wányán Liàng the next Jin emperor.

The sole reign of Cleopatra was finally ended by a cabal of courtiers, led by the eunuch Pothinus, in connection with a half-Greek general, Achillas, and Theodotus of Chios.

Dalyell stated in an interview with the American magazine Vanity Fair that Prime Minister Tony Blair was unduly influenced by a " cabal of Jewish advisers.

In a 1995 speech, Irving claimed that the Holocaust was a myth invented by a " world-wide Jewish cabal " to serve their own ends.

The term Connector Conspiracy was coined to describe this situation, and implies the worst case scenario of a cabal of manufacturers colluding in secret to sell incompatible connectors.

Arlington, next to Buckingham himself the most powerful member of the cabal and a favourite of the king, was less easy to overcome ; and he derived considerable influence from the control of foreign affairs entrusted to him.

Louis de Rohan was a member of the palace cabal opposed to the Austrian alliance.

A fundamental goal of The Order was revolution against the American government, which its members, and those of other white supremacist groups, believed to be controlled by a cabal of prominent Jews.

This resolution was the forerunner of the Test Act, in the preparation of which Sacheverell took an active part, and which caused the breakup of the cabal.

Murphy served on the Banking Committee and attempted to introduce reforms but was stymied by the powerful political cabal known as " The Family ".

Following the Stuart Restoration, on 28 December 1661, Harrington was arrested on a charge of conspiring against the government in the " Bow Street " cabal and, without a trial, was thrown into the Tower.

OMGASM, which stands for Operation Mindfuck: Golden Apple Seed Missions, was started in early 2008 by the cabal residing at the principiadiscordia. com forums.

He was assassinated near the end of his term of office at the behest of a cabal of army generals resentful at his insistence that his successor be a civilian.

The assassination plot centred on a group that was convened in 1682 – 3 by Robert West of the Middle Temple, a Green Ribbon Club member: it is now often called the Rye House cabal.

The " cabal " was later named as the " council of six ", which took form after the Tory successes in summer 1682 in the struggle to control the City of London.

Along with Rick Adams and Eugene Spafford, Horton created the Usenet Backbone, later described as the Backbone cabal.

Neferata frustrated with the lack of progress and desiring power for herself allied with Arkhan in secret and with his help created a new elixir then used it to turn the cabal to her side and took power.

However, during the series, another group of Synthetics are discovered to be from Mars and that in the original timeline, all the Synthetics created by humanity are destroyed by a satellite designed for that purpose by a cabal within the US government.

At 29, he took over more of the reins of power, though he continued to rule through a cabal consisting of Marcia, his new chamberlain Eclectus, and the new praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus, who about this time also had many Christians freed from working in the mines in Sardinia.

The backbone providers, the backbone cabal, were instrumental in this reorganization of Usenet since they had great influence with respect to supporting a new newsgroup.

" As a result " they set up what came to be known as the ' cabal ', a cell of eight or nine analysts in a new Office of Special Plans ( OSP ) based in the U. S. Defense Department.

A cabal of Ankh-Morpork's guild leaders seeks to gradually depose the Patrician, replace him with Nobby Nobbs as the new king and rule the city through him.

In the 1960s, right-wing populist individuals and groups with a producerist worldview, such as members of the John Birch Society, were the first to combine and spread an ultraconservative business nationalist critique of corporate internationalists networked through think tanks such as the Council on Foreign Relations with a grand conspiracy theory casting them as front organizations for the Round Table of the " Anglo-American Establishment ", which are financed by an " international banking cabal " that has supposedly been plotting from the late 19th century on to impose an oligarchic new world order through a global financial system.

In 1992, the concept of the Circle was redeveloped by TSR as a powerful cabal of wizards as part of a new storyline for the World of Greyhawk campaign.

Among those that the Usenet cabal ( who effectively ran the Big 7 at the time ) did not allow were those concerning recipes, drugs, and sex.

The " backbone carriers ", or the backbone cabal as they have been referred to by some users of the Usenet, were vital hubs in the distribution chain of most of the newsgroup postings.

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* Usenet cabal

A historically significant Internet figure, he is renowned for first analyzing the Morris Worm, one of the earliest computer worms, and his prominent role in the Usenet backbone cabal.

* Backbone cabal, a group of administrators on Usenet in the late 80s to early 90s

Emergent processes or behaviours can be seen in many places, such as traffic patterns, cities, political systems of governance, cabal and market-dominant minority phenomena in politics and economics, organizational phenomena in computer simulations and cellular automata.

Significant occurrences in politics and finance are speculated to be orchestrated by an unduly influential cabal operating through many front organizations.

And since Noel has taken to championing only five or six groups, then it's a powerful cabal he's promoting.

Julian explains that the Eric-Julian-Caine triumvirate arose only to oppose Brand's cabal, taking the throne to prevent Bleys from claiming it.

When Corwin arrived with Bleys, they assumed he had joined the cabal, but when ( after his capture ) they realized he only wanted the throne, Julian suggested blinding him as an alternative to killing him.

He would later return only shortly to help retrieve the kidnapped Flag's son and to assist in trying to uncover a secret government cabal.