May 15, 2003

Great Renaming

n.

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

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:45 AM

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