Changing the name of USENET?

Changing the name of USENET? #olduse.net

🕚︎ - 2011-10-26

I am toying with the idea of changing the names USENET (the network itself) and netnews (the collection of software that implements netnews) both to "newsnet".

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Since this is a sweeping change, and since I'm not God, I would like to see discussion on whether this is a good thing to do.

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One of the suggestions was interesting: "WEB" (!)

🕚︎ - 2011-10-26 - 0 comments

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