[net.columbia] Newgroup name

andrew@hammer.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (02/04/86)

The way to "rename" a newgroup is to delete the old and create the new.
Someone has figured out how to create "net.challenger".  The remaining
step is to destroy the old group.

Destroying net.columbia would prematurely cancel several hundred news
articles, and it would lose subscribers who don't know enough to
subscribe to net.challenger.  (Some news reading programs don't
automatically tell you when a new newsgroup has come along.)  Worst of
all, perhaps, are the symbolic connotations of ritually destroying the
namesake of the first space shuttle.

Let's drop the "rename the newsgroup" fervor.  There are much better
ways of remembering the lost seven astronauts, as discussed in several
articles in net.columbia.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]