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Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Don't rename net.columbia
Message-ID: <187@gt-oscar.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 14:14:18 EST
Article-I.D.: gt-oscar.187
Posted: Mon Feb  3 14:14:18 1986
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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Summary: Rename in memorial

In article <4911@alice.UUCP>, ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
> I think that the newsgroup for discussing space flight
> should be named after one of its most spectacular successes,
> rather than one of its most spectacular disasters.
> Would you change net.aviation to net.hindenburg or net.tenerife?
> Net.rec.boats to net.titanic?
>
> While we should learn from our failures,
> we should not allow them to blind us to our achievements.

   What about the Lincoln Memorial.  We would be honoring those who
gave their lives for mankind.  We should keep that day in our memories
as much as we should keep the day of Lincoln's all-too-soon demise.