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From: klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: some thoughts
Message-ID: <300@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 11:35:53 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 11:35:53 1986
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In article <1620@decwrl.DEC.COM> paulhus@euclid.DEC (N. CHRIS PAULHUS DTN 223-6871 MLO8-3/T13) writes:
>
>	"If you never have a dream, you never have a dream come true."
>			- J. Cricket
>	The dream IS alive.
>	
>	  First, a big Thank You to Kurt Reisler for getting these notes some
>	visibility in high places.  I hope you edited them a bit - there's a
>	discouraging amount of nit-picking, ego boosting, immature junk that
>	makes reading these submissions a chore at times.  But the gems of
>	rational, informed comment and conjecture make it worth while. (Who
>	was it that stunned a SF com with a GOH speech that started: "90% of
>	Science Fiction is junk."  And then redeemed himself by continuing:
>	"90% of everything is junk."  
>	   I hope the following sentiments can be included in the next 
>	submission to Senator Garn's office.

	In return, I want to express a VERY BIG thank you to all who have
	been contributing, both through the discussions in net.space and
	net.columbia (as well as other groups), and via direct UUCP and
	FIDOMAIL to me.  All of the messages that I have taken to Senator
	Garn have been in the form they were received.  This includes the
	one message that suggested that it was a pity that Senator Garn
	was not on 51-L.  The Senator and his staff are use to seeing
	nit-picking, ego-boosting, immaturity and pure stupidity, both
	from the public and their peers.  I felt, and still feel that to
	change or censor the messages would be unfair to those who posted
	them and to the memory of those that this is all about.

	The messages continue to come in, and I will be taking them to 
	my meeting with Senator Garn in April.  I hope to return from
	that meeting with a message from the Senator to all of us on 
	the nets.  All of the messages help, and every opinion or
	thought is of value.  As I have stated, for once our ramblings
	on USENET are having an impact outside of our electronic
	village.  Please keep the discussions going.  If you have a 
	message that you want to send to Senator Garn, either post it
	here, of send it directly to me.  Maybe we can't all go up in
	the Space Shuttle, but we sure can see to it that our children
	will not be denied the opportunity.

	The Dream is alive!  And we are going to keep it that way!

	Thanks to all of you,
	Kurt Reisler
	..!seismo!hadron!klr