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From: irwin@iago.caltech.edu (Horowitz, Irwin Kenneth)
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Subject: Re: Call for new news group : sci.space.seds
Keywords: Space, newsgroup, SEDS
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Date: 7 Nov 90 17:01:51 GMT
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In article <1990Nov6.193929.6072@cc.ic.ac.uk>, zmapj36@cc.ic.ac.uk (M.S.Bennett  Supvs= Prof Pendry) writes...
> 
>SEDS is one of the largest space student organisation in the world- USSEDS was
>founded 10 years ago to put pressure on congress to uncancel a number of
>probe missions - in this it was successful.
> 
Just want to clear this up for the record...SEDS WAS NOT formed to put pressure 
on Congress to fund certain space probes (our friends in the UK seem to have
this crazy notion, but I know not from where...).  SEDS is a non-profit 
organization, and as such is limited to the rules governing such groups in
terms of political lobbying.  What SEDS (which by the way stands for Students
for the Exploration and Development of Space) does is work to promote our goals
through educational activities.  While it is true that the members of SEDS can
become politically involved (as US citizens we all have that right), we can't
really do it as an organization, but simply as individuals.  In fact, in the
past few months, I have written a letter to several congressmen (concerning the
SEI) as well as helped in the reelection campaign of Congressman George Brown
(who appears to have won!).  However, I did this not as a SEDS member, but
rather as a concerned citizen (see the difference, Sean?).
>
>Now SEDS is growing into a multi-national organisation with branches across the
>world (Italy, Tiwan, Canada). We have links with the ISU and Eurasia (the 
>European Space student group).
> 
>We clearly need some means of giving people an easy mode of access other than
>BITNET mail servers - NEWS would be an excelent method.
> 
For anyone who is interested, there are two news groups that are devoted to
SEDS information.  One, called SEDSNEWS, is basically a rehash of much of the
NASA info released on sci.space and sci.space.shuttle (probe and shuttle 
updates) as well as some other info of interest.  The other deals mainly with
the internal workings of SEDS as an organization, and has proven extremely
helpful in terms of communications between students at widely scattered 
locations.  It is called SEDS-L.  If you are interested in receiving either
of these, please contact me, and I'll forward the instructions on how to sign
up for them.

In the meantime, if ANYONE out there is curious about SEDS, and would like more
info, I'll be more than happy to provide whatever you may need.  We are looking
to expand our organization, and would like to get contacts from interested
high school and college students from around the world!

BTW, I have been a member of SEDS since my freshman year at MIT (1982), and
have had many wonderful experiences due to my involvement with SEDS.  I really
want to make SEDS available to anyone who is interested in humanity's future
in space.
>
>I await your responses, if any - (would that mean you did not object?)
> 
>			Yours M.S.Bennett
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