Historically, the group acquired its name when the B News transport
software predominated.  Since C News was introduced, no one has ever
managed to forge a consensus as to whether a better name would be
news.software.transport (which might be a more generally descriptive
name) or news.software.transport_s_ (which would dovetail better with
news.software.readers).

At some point, some brave soul will probably pick either one, post an RFD
(Request for Discussion) to rename it and alias the old name, and voila!

However, Mark Brader offered the following curmudgeonly rebuttal:
I don't think that's really it.  I think it's more a case of leaving
well enough alone.

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