Notes on  GREAT RENAMING 

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.

J3N Research Labs

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