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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Re: Renaming this newsgroup
Message-ID: <1007@burl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 11:24:22 EST
Article-I.D.: burl.1007
Posted: Sat Feb  8 11:24:22 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 08:16:26 EST
References: <1921@saber.UUCP> <2039@hplabs.UUCP> <616@riccb.UUCP> <531@ssc-vax.UUCP> <563@ihlpl.UUCP>
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
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Summary: 

In article <563@ihlpl.UUCP> res@ihlpl.UUCP (Rich Strebendt @ AT&T Information Systems - Indian Hill West; formerly) writes:
>If someone feels that the newsgroup simply cannot continue to exist
>without being renamed, I would then propose a name more like
>net.to.the.stars, or net.man.in.space, net.space.exploration to embody
>the reason that many of us subscribe to this group -- a desire to look
>out beyond the narrow confines of our humble planet.

I agree in that I am against renaming the group, but the new name must
in some way convey to the newcomer that this group is for discussions
of the space shuttle only.  The front-runner new name is still, from
what I have seen, net.space.shuttle; if indeed the group is to be
renamed at all.
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