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From: dmkdmk@ecsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.columbia -> net.challenger -- NO!
Message-ID: <1149@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 21:57:09 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  2 21:57:09 1986
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References: <4910@alice.UUCP>
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In article <4910@alice.UUCP>, Andrew Koening 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.

I agree.  Count this a vote to stay as net.columbia.
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                                        David M. Kurtiak
                                        UNC - Greensboro
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