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    interj. An aggrieved cry often heard as bugs manifest during a regression test. The {canonical} reply to this assertion is "Then it works... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    backbone cabal

    n. A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of USENET during most of the 1980s. The cabal mailing list disbanded in late 1988 after a bitter internal catfight, but the net hardly noticed.