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Great Renaming
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. The flag day in 1987 on which all of the non-local groups on the Usenet
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had their names changed from the net.- format to the current
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multiple-hierarchies scheme. Used esp. in discussing the history of
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newsgroup names. The oldest sources group is comp.sources.misc ; before the
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Great Renaming, it was net.sources. There is a Great Renaming FAQ on the
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Web.
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