summers@ihuxk.UUCP (09/01/83)
Shouldn't the name of this newsgroup change from net.columbia to net.shuttle? There is more than one space/aircraft. Any comments? -- Robert L. Summers Bell Laboratories Naperville, Illinois 60566 (312) 979-1649 ucbvax!ihnss!ihuxk!summers
alb@alice.UUCP (09/02/83)
I don't believe this! For (hopefully) the LAST time, we have been over and over this again and again. When this group was cut off a couple years ago and merged with net.space, people wrote me and asked to reinstate net.columbia. When a poll was held after that (for the first time) asking if we should change the name, the overwhelming response was no. Since then, the subject has come up countless times, and every time the decision is to let it stay net.columbia. Put it to rest already!
james@umcp-cs.UUCP (09/02/83)
Probably, but this way makes the newsgroup more ___________. Fill in the blank with, maybe, exclusive, anachronistic, clever.
bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (09/03/83)
In all the debate about changing the name that has gone on so many times, one thing was never pointed out. Keeping the columbia name means that new members of the net will constantly be asking why we kept the name, thus starting up the debate again. This will never cease. While it is nice to have a name that honours the first shuttle, this is understood only to people who have read the group for a long time. With current net growth, this is a small portion of the readers. The rest of the names on the net are designed to be descriptive (except net.general and net.test) but this one is way off, and we will keep having this discussion as long as new people don't understand the name. -- Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304