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From: cccjack@ucdavis.UUCP (Jack Ogawa)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.columbia
Subject: Re: Silly, silly us: net.columbia
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Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 18:03:10 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  1 18:03:10 1986
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> [.....]
>
> 	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.  And suggestions that net.challenger is
> a fitting memorial or that net.columbia was to honor the first space
> shuttle just don't hold any rational water.  Even net.enterprise would
> have made a more reasonable name than net.columbia.  (And it can never
> be destroyed in space.)  But let's make things right and make it, once
> and for all, net.space.shuttle.
> --
> Roger Noe			ihnp4!riccb!rjnoe

I agree.  net.space.shuttle is a more fitting name to a news group
that concerns itself with the shuttle program in general, rather than
any particular shuttle!