meaning of newgroup

1. newgroup wars /n[y]oogroop 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 doesnt. 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. [Jargon File] New Jersey [Primarily Stanford/Silicon Valley] Brain-damaged or of poor design. This refers to the allegedly wretched quality of such software as C, C++ and Unix which originated at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. "This compiler bites the bag, but what can you expect from a compiler designed in New Jersey?" Compare Berkeley Quality Software. See also Unix conspiracy. newline jargon> /n[y]ooli:n/ Line feed or other character sequence used to terminate a line of text. Unix uses line feed as its text line terminator - a Bell-Labs-ism rather than a Berkeleyism. Interestingly and unusually for Unix jargon, it is said to have originally been an IBM usage. Though the term "newline" appears in ASCII standards, it never caught on in the general computing world before Unix. The encoding of line feed as " " in C and Unix strings comes from this name. The term has been used more generally for any end of line character, character sequence e. g. crlf, or operation like Pascals writeln procedure or Lisp 1. 5s terpri required to terminate a text record or separate lines. [Jargon File]

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