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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (Michael Ross)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Don't rename net.columbia
Message-ID: <461@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 10:44:18 EST
Article-I.D.: mmm.461
Posted: Wed Feb  5 10:44:18 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 07:34:52 EST
References: <4911@alice.UUCP> <187@gt-oscar.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (Michael Ross)
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Summary: 

In article <187@gt-oscar.UUCP> is15bbe@gt-oscar.UUCP writes:
>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.

We don't memorialize Lincoln because he was assassinated, but because
of what he did when he was alive. 

	--MKR