May 15, 2003

Lumber Cartel

n.

A mythical conspiracy accused by spam-spewers of funding anti-spam activism in order to force the direct-mail promotions industry back onto paper. Hackers, predictably, responded by forming a Lumber Cartel spoofing this paranoid theory; the web page is http://come.to/the.lumber.cartel/. Members often include the tag TINLC (There Is No Lumber Cartel) in their postings; see TINC, backbone cabal and NANA for explanation.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:39 AM

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