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From: ins_ajls@jhunix.UUCP (Judith Lynne Schmidt)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Challenger eulogies?
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Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 15:35:36 EST
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> I was only asking that we try to stick a little closer to the subject of
> the shuttle rather than using it as an opportunity to smear Hall, Pravda
> and the Nicaraguans which I cannot believe people do not notice some
> opportunists on this list are doing. 
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> If it were one or two messages I would have restrained myself, but it
> isn't, it's dozens of messages many of them very similar (am I really
> the only one to have noticed this? no, unfortunately those that agreed
> with me sent private mail, only the self-made idealogues and defenders
> of the one true faith posted to the net with their slander.) 
               -Barry Shein, Boston University

I agree totally!  I'm amazed at some of the letters that have been posted.
A newcomer to the net might assume this newsgroup was discussing 
free press in Canada, or some equally irrelevant subject.
I subscribed to listen to an intelligent discussion of the shuttle
program, and instead listened to people berating each other because
of nationality, political belief, etc.  That's not what this group
is for.  (or is it, and I'm subscribed to the wrong one?)

<<flame off>>

Most of the letters have been an honest effort to spread news/feelings
about the shuttle.  I've enjoyed reading these letters.  The people
using the group to advance their political opinions do not belong here.

Feel free to flame away.