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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Lumber Cartel</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="Lubarskys-Law-of-Cybernetic-Entomology.html" title="Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology"/><link rel="next" href="lunatic-fringe.html" title="lunatic fringe"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Lumber Cartel</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Lubarskys-Law-of-Cybernetic-Entomology.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lunatic-fringe.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Lumber-Cartel"/><dt xmlns="" id="Lumber-Cartel"><b>Lumber Cartel</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A mythical conspiracy accused by <a href="../S/spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a>-spewers
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of funding anti-spam activism in order to force the direct-mail promotions
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industry back onto paper. Hackers, predictably, responded by forming a
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“<span class="quote">Lumber Cartel</span>” spoofing this paranoid theory; the web page is
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<a href="http://come.to/the.lumber.cartel/" target="_top">http://come.to/the.lumber.cartel/</a>. Members
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often include the tag TINLC (“<span class="quote">There Is No Lumber Cartel</span>”) in
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their postings; see <a href="../T/TINC.html"><i class="glossterm">TINC</i></a>,
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<a href="../B/backbone-cabal.html"><i class="glossterm">backbone cabal</i></a> and <a href="../N/NANA.html"><i class="glossterm">NANA</i></a> for explanation.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Lubarskys-Law-of-Cybernetic-Entomology.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="lunatic-fringe.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> lunatic fringe</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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