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From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Name change?
Message-ID: <5691@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Sep-83 11:35:41 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  3 11:35:41 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Sep-83 02:08:27 EDT
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In all the debate about changing the name that has gone on so many
times, one thing was never pointed out.  Keeping the columbia name
means that new members of the net will constantly be asking why we
kept the name, thus starting up the debate again.

This will never cease.  While it is nice to have a name that honours
the first shuttle, this is understood only to people who have read
the group for a long time.  With current net growth, this is a small
portion of the readers.    The rest of the names on the net are
designed to be descriptive (except net.general and net.test) but this
one is way off, and we will keep having this discussion as long as
new people don't understand the name.

-- 
	Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304