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n. 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. 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.
