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Newgroup 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. 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 humor; e. g. , the spinoff of alt. swedish. chef. bork. bork. bork from alt. tv. muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialized abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e. g. , alt. weemba.