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nana


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  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. 
 
 




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