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Subject: Re: Don't rename net.columbia
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 16:48:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 16:48:00 1986
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I agree with alice!ark and the rest who maintain that this group's
name should remain net.columbia.  Notice that the group isn't now
named net.shuttle.  I have no doubt that the folks who are suggesting
that it be changed were not here when it was named net.columbia, and
were not here through the several previous threats to change the name
to something "more fitting."

It's called net.columbia in memory of the first shuttle, and
net.columbia it should stay.  Period.  If you want to go naming
something net.challenger (or net.titanic, as has been suggested), then
go name something new.  This newsgroup's name already comemmorates
something that deserves remembering.  To change its name will be an
affront to those of us who wish to continue the spirit in which this
newsgroup was named.

I was here when sjb wasn't a typo for srb.

	Andrew Tannenbaum   Interactive   Boston, MA   617-247-1155