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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Great Renaming</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="Great-Internet-Explosion.html" title="Great Internet Explosion"/><link rel="next" href="Great-Runes.html" title="Great Runes"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Great Renaming</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Great-Internet-Explosion.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Great-Runes.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Great-Renaming"/><dt xmlns="" id="Great-Renaming"><b>Great Renaming</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The <a href="../F/flag-day.html"><i class="glossterm">flag day</i></a> in 1987 on which all of the
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non-local groups on the <a href="../U/Usenet.html"><i class="glossterm">Usenet</i></a> had their names
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changed from the net.- format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme.
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Used esp. in discussing the history of newsgroup names. “<span class="quote">The oldest
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sources group is <tt class="systemitem">comp.sources.misc</tt>; before the Great Renaming,
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it was <tt class="systemitem">net.sources</tt>.</span>” There
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is a <a href="http://www.vrx.net/usenet/history/rename.html" target="_top"> Great
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Renaming FAQ</a> on the Web.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Great-Internet-Explosion.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Great-Runes.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Great Internet Explosion </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Great Runes</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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