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In November of 1997, a participant on News.admin.net-abuse.email posted an essay to the newsgroup. The essay described a Conspiracy Theory : The reasoning provided in the essay was that certain companies first destroy forests and make Paper out of them, which is in turn used to send Bulk Mail . Since sending E-mail Spam doesn't use paper at all, the essay argued, the lumber companies would want to stop it before it would surpass paper-based bulk mailing, and consequently only those in the pay of the lumber companies would be anti-spam. Gatherings of anti-spammers on Usenet began to ridicule proponents of this theory, and many participants in News.admin.net-abuse.email chose to dub themselves as members of "the Lumber Cartel" in their Signature s, followed immediately by the acronymic disclaimer "TINLC" (There Is No Lumber Cartel), reminiscent of the There Is No Cabal catchphrase. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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