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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....
• et.-: /net dot/ pref. [USENET] Prefix used to describe people and events related to USENET.
  From the time before the {Great Renaming}, when most non-local newsgroups had names beginning `net....
• et.- /net dot/ pref. [Usenet] Prefix used to describe people and events related to Usenet.
  From the time before the Great Renaming, when most non-local newsgroups had names beginning `net....
• By the time of the Great Renaming, net.suicide, along with net.
  umors, was mainly populated by refugees from net.bizarre, which was the first popular group ever dropped by the backbone....
• itename: /si:t'naym/ [UNIX/Internet] n. The unique electronic name of a computer system, used to identify it in UUCP mail, USENET, or other forms of electronic information interchange.
  The folklore interest of sitenames stems from the creativity and humor they often display....
• backbone cabal: n. A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the {Great Renaming} and reined in the chaos of {USENET} during most of the 1980s.
  The cabal {mailing list} disbanded in late 1988 after a bitter internal catfight....
• ewgroup wars: /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [USENET] n. The salvos of dueling `newgroup' and `rmgroup' messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a {newsgroup} should be created net-wide
  or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed....
• itename /si:t'naym/ n. [Unix/Internet] The unique electronic name of a computer system, used to identify it in UUCP mail, Usenet, or other forms of electronic information interchange.
  The folklore interest of sitenames stems from the creativity and humor they often display....
• ewgroup wars /n[y]oo'groop worz/ n. [Usenet] The salvos of dueling newgroup and rmgroup messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide
  or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed....