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⚫ The '''Lumber Cartel''' was a ], subsequently popularized on ], that was alleged by ] to back ]. Hackers, and participants in ] chose to dub themselves as members of "the Lumber Cartel" in their ]s, followed immediately by the acronymic disclaimer "TINLC" (There Is No Lumber Cartel), reminiscent of the ] catchphrase. <ref>The ]: ""</ref>


In 1999 a group going by the name of the Lumber Cartel organized a campaign against a spammer who owned several online casinos.<ref>http://gamblingmagazine.com/articles/34/34-15.htm</ref> They also spoke out against the Direct Marketing Association. <ref>http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/11/12/spam/index2.html</ref>
The '''Lumber Cartel''' was a ], subsequently popularized on ], that was alleged to back ]mers.

The reasoning was that these companies first destroy forests and make ] out of them, which is in turn used to send ]. Since sending ] doesn't use paper at all, the essay argued, the lumber companies would want to stop it before it would surpass paper-based bulk mailing, and consequently only those in the pay of the lumber companies would be anti-spam.

Anti-spammers, of course, were quick to point out that this reasoning is far from the truth. There are many reasons why e-mail spam was, and continues to be, a threat to the Internet, and why people continue to fight spam either in their spare time or professionally. In addition, in recent decades only ] ] (which is used to print ]) is being made out of ] (which is, also, very far from ]), other fine papers (like the kind used to print glossy advertisements and brochures) are made out of cotton rags. It is thus unlikely that the any lumber or tree-harvesting industry would benefit from any change from junk mailing. Furthermore, lumber companies themselves have little to do with paper companies, and bulk mail constitutes only a small part of total paper use.

⚫ Gatherings of anti-spammers on Usenet began to ridicule proponents of this theory, and many participants in ] chose to dub themselves as members of "the Lumber Cartel" in their ]s, followed immediately by the acronymic disclaimer "TINLC" (There Is No Lumber Cartel), reminiscent of the ] catchphrase.


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==Web sites dedicated to the Lumber Cartel== ==Web sites dedicated to the Lumber Cartel==
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The Lumber Cartel was a conspiracy theory, subsequently popularized on USENET, that was alleged by spammers to back anti-spammers. Hackers, and participants in news.admin.net-abuse.email chose to dub themselves as members of "the Lumber Cartel" in their signatures, followed immediately by the acronymic disclaimer "TINLC" (There Is No Lumber Cartel), reminiscent of the There Is No Cabal catchphrase.

In 1999 a group going by the name of the Lumber Cartel organized a campaign against a spammer who owned several online casinos. They also spoke out against the Direct Marketing Association.

References

  1. The Jargon File: "Lumber Cartel"
  2. http://gamblingmagazine.com/articles/34/34-15.htm
  3. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/11/12/spam/index2.html

Web sites dedicated to the Lumber Cartel

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