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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.columbia
Subject: Re: Silly, silly us: net.columbia
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 11:39:57 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 11:39:57 1986
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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


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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