Hi Martin, At 2025-10-05T17:50:41+1000, Martin D Kealey wrote: > If my memory isn't too decrepit yet, USENET got rebranded as *Usenet* > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Renaming> somewhere around 1987,
Ah! A bit before my time. I associated the "Great Renaming" only with the reorganization of the newsgroup name space. But I see that Gene Spafford was using conventional rather than full capitalization for "Usenet" even in 1986.[1] > so I don't think undoing that will stick even now. I reckon I was wrong. A better fix is probably to follow Spafford's orthography. > That said, does anyone actually *read* bug reports sent to the > newsgroup? If so, on which platform? It seems like the remaining > “Usenet” sites have become isolated islands, only accepting feeds from > and sending feeds to paying customers, cut off from other sites. (In > particular, Google Groups effectively forked from Usenet a few years > ago, when they stopped importing any feeds, but kept all the > newsgroups open for intra-site postings.) That's a good question, but that sort of content-level revision was not within the scope of my proposed change. > If nobody is reading and actioning reports on Usenet, should all > mention of Usenet as a bug reporting channel simply be dropped from > the FAQ? Maybe. Incidentally, the document I was patching was not any sort of FAQ, but the bash(1) man page. Regards, Branden [1] https://groups.google.com/g/net.news.group/c/uWqKiWoiaSA/m/yJZ1uqmCGtIJ
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