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• Great Renaming: n. The {flag day} in 1985 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....
• 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....
• 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.
  During most of its lifetime, the Cabal (as it was sometimes capitalized) steadfastly denied its own existence...
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....