newgroup wars
/n[y]oo'groop worz/ [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. These usually settle out within a
week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency
(usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt
hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or
humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets
in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after
particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
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