Great Renaming
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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.

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