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11.12. What was the Great Renaming?
The Great Renaming is the day in 1985 on which all
of the nonlocal groups on the Usenet had their names changed from the
net. format to the current hierarchical naming system. For instance, the
newsgroup net.sources became comp.sources.misc.
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