Backbone cabal
backbone cabal
networking
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 cat-fight.
[jargon file]
(1994-11-28)
Read Also:
- Backbone site
backbone site a key usenet, electronic mail and/or internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the usenet maps. notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at rutgers university, uc berkeley, dec’s […]
- Backbreaker
demanding great effort, endurance, etc.; exhausting: a backbreaking job. contemporary examples although he is not on trial for the video, it was the backbreaker in the court of public opinion. john galliano in the courtroom tracy mcnicoll june 22, 2011 historical examples i jerked and rolled in a movement calculated to throw him to the […]
- Backburner
noun state of temporary postponement or deferral; also written back burner word origin refers to the back burners of a stove, where food gets less attention
- Backcheck
to skate back toward one’s defensive zone obstructing or impeding the movement or progress of one or more opponents on attack. compare check1 (def 15), fore-check. to check over or through; review: back-check the files to see if the patient’s records are there.
- Backcloth
backdrop (def 1). historical examples in marius the background is merely a backcloth for mental poses plastiques. masques & phases robert ross requires a dab of red in all that backcloth of green and black, doesnt it? twos and threes g. b. stern noun a large painted curtain hanging at the back of a stage […]