Acbosgd.127 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Mon Oct 26 15:16:19 1981 change of names netnews and USENET An amazing number of people have been confused by the similarity of the names USENET and UUCP net, and think they are the same thing. This is almost true, since most USENET sites are also on UUCP, but of course there are many UUCP sites that are not on USENET, and there are several USENET sites that aren't on UUCP. 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". The names of the individual programs in version B (inews, readnews, checknews) would not change, and I see no reason to change the program name "news" either, although some sites might want to change "netnews" to "newsnet", this would certainly not be required. There would be no software impact here, only verbal impact. 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. Please reply to net.news. Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.