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There ''is'' no cabal, but there ''was'' an effective cabal in the early days of Usenet. This group was often known as the Backbone Cabal , which consisted of a number of large "backbone" sites that distributed most of the Usenet traffic. Some of these sites paid thousands of dollars per month for the communication links servicing Usenet, often hidden in large telecommunications budgets. (Since the late 1990s, the growth of cheap high-speed Internet connections has made a backbone organization largely unnecessary.)

  • hierarchy. The Alt.sex group (and later sub-hierarchy) quickly became very popular and soon the "alt.---" hierarchy became common on many sites. (Several sites would be reluctant to subscribe to just "alt.sex", so they would get the whole hierarchy instead.)


There has been a usenet cabal faq for quite some time. http://world.std.com/~hannigan/ucabal.faq