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From: phoenix@genat.UUCP (phoenix)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.columbia
Subject: Re: Silly, silly us: net.columbia
Message-ID: <2570@genat.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 12:49:42 EST
Article-I.D.: genat.2570
Posted: Mon Feb 24 12:49:42 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Feb-86 05:30:13 EST
References: <19000004@hpfcla.UUCP> <628@riccb.UUCP> <757@tpvax.fluke.UUCP>
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Organization: Genamation Inc. (Toronto Ontario, Canada)
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Keywords: emotions
Xref: utcs net.news.group:4926 net.columbia:2339
Summary: net.columbia vs. net.challenger vs. ???

In article <757@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson) writes:
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>> I and others suggested several times long before the Challenger accident
>> that the name should be net.space.shuttle.  This movement never got enough
>> support to accomplish the name change.  I appeal now, on rational grounds,
>> to all readers of net.columbia who are irritated by the flood of postings
>> of the "net.challenger" type:
>> 	LET'S CHANGE THE NAME OF net.columbia TO net.space.shuttle !
>> I think the advantages of this name change far outweigh any claimed dif-
>> ficulties from such a change.  
>> --
>> Roger Noe			ihnp4!riccb!rjnoe
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>
>Get off it. You make a good point for reason and rationality in a computer
>network that is *FAR* from rational. Sure logic is great, but it isn't
>*EVERYTHING* for crying out loud!
>
>Take a break, partner. I like a little sentimentality now and again. It's
>kind of cozy, you know?
>
>
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Before the explosion, I would have been in favour of "net.enterprise" rather
than "net.columbia" (well, it *was* the first one, wasn't it?  or did I miss
something...)(I saw her flight over Toronto a while back; it still gives me
shivers...).  I now support any name that is *not* net.space.shuttle.  That
name, compared with the others is essentially sterile, devoid of emotional
content; and I, for one, am *very* emotional about space-travel, space
exploration, space colonization, the Final Frontier, etc., etc.

"Out there...thataway!"

-- 
					The Phoenix
					(Neither Bright, Dark, nor Young)


---"A man should live forever...or die trying."
---"There is no substitute for good manners...except fast reflexes."