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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>newgroup wars</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="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="newbie.html" title="newbie"/><link rel="next" href="newline.html" title="newline"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">newgroup wars</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="newbie.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="newline.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="newgroup-wars"/><dt xmlns="" id="newgroup-wars"><b>newgroup wars</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/n[y]oo´groop worz/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet] The salvos of dueling <b class="command">newgroup</b> and <b class="command">rmgroup</b>
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messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over
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whether a <a href="newsgroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsgroup</i></a> should be created net-wide, or
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(even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These
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usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the
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group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times,
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especially in the completely anarchic <tt class="systemitem">alt</tt> hierarchy, the names of newsgroups
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themselves become a form of comment or humor; e.g., the group <tt class="systemitem">alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork</tt> which
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originated as a birthday joke for a Muppets fan, or any number of
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specialized abuse groups named after particularly notorious
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<a href="../F/flamer.html"><i class="glossterm">flamer</i></a>s, e.g., <tt class="systemitem">alt.weemba</tt>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="newbie.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="newline.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">newbie </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> newline</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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