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Renaming and reined in the chaos of [936]Usenet during most of the

1980s. During most of its lifetime, the Cabal (as it was sometimes

capitalized) steadfastly denied its own existence; it was almost

obligatory for anyone privy to their secrets to respond "There is no

Cabal" whenever the existence or activities of the group were

speculated on in public.

The result of this policy was an attractive aura of mystery. Even a

decade after the cabal [937]mailing list disbanded in late 1988

following a bitter internal catfight, many people believed (or claimed

to believe) that it had not actually disbanded but only gone deeper

underground with its power intact.

This belief became a model for various paranoid theories about various

Cabals with dark nefarious objectives beginning with taking over the

Usenet or Internet. These paranoias were later satirized in ways that

took on a life of their own. See [938]Eric Conspiracy for one example.

See [939]NANA for the subsequent history of "the Cabal".

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