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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Mission 23/61B touchdown
Message-ID: <741@tpvax.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 12:30:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  6 12:30:32 1985
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> 
> 	"...this newsgroup ... named after a
> 	non-functioning space ... vehicle, couldn't it just as well
> 	be named after ... the ... 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]

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HEAR HEAR!! Besides all those logical reasons, some of us feel a certain
sentimental attachment to the name of the group, not only because we feel a
spark of pride about the orginal shuttle, but also because the anachronism
of naming this group after it is an endearing part of the newsgroup. I'm not
some kind of emotional slob, but the shuttle holds a special place in my
view of human accomplishments. I'd like to see this newsgroup be called
net.columbia long after the retirement of its namesake.

Can't you just see it? The year 3000: our successor's successors submitting
articles on space flight to net.columbia! I think it would be fun in the
same sense that today it would be fun to pick up a ringer-type phone
somewhere in a tiny town in Maine, spin the crank a few times and hear a
crackling voice say, "Central".

Hail Columbia!


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