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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Mission 23/61B touchdown
Message-ID: <1923@orca.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 12:45:16 EST
Article-I.D.: orca.1923
Posted: Wed Dec  4 12:45:16 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Dec-85 03:27:03 EST
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	"Since this newsgroup can go for two years named after a
	non-functioning space shuttle vehicle, couldn't it just as well
	be named after a permanently non- functioning vehicle, the
	FIRST flying shuttle, Enterprise?"

Are you crazy?  Do that and we'll be inundated with postings from
trekkies who are new to the net.

The overhead of renaming a newgroup is not worth it.  Renaming a
newsgroup consists of deleting the old and creating the new.  You lose
all the archived articles, because the old directory is trashed and a
new one is built.  You also invalidate everyone's ".newsrc" file, you
stand a chance of losing some contributors to confusion, and you'll
find the group resurrected under its old name several times by news
administrators who decide that the group died by accident (system file
corruption, etc.)

Let's let this proposal die.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]