Lumber Cartel
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title:
Lumber Cartel
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The Lumber Cartel was a facetious conspiracy theory popularized on USENET that claimed anti-spammers were secretly paid agents of lumber companies. In November 1997, a participant on news.admin.net-abuse.email posted an essay to the newsgroup. The essay described a conspiracy theory: The reasoning provided in the essay was that certain companies first destroy forests and make paper out of them, which is in turn used to send bulk mail. Since sending e-mail spam does not use paper at all, the essa
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Facetious conspiracy theory popularized on USENET
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber_Cartel
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2024-02-07T22:28:52Z
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