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the X that can be Y is not the true X
Yet another instance of hackerdom's peculiar attraction to mystical references --- a common humorous way of making exclusive statements about a class of ... 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.