Thom wrote to Steven at 05:52 16 Sep:

 TL> Steven Horn wrote in a message to Bob Short:


 BS> ... volunteers.  Beginning with a few friends exchanging messages
 BS> in 1984, FidoNet has grown into a global network consisting of
 BS> thousands of nodes. 

 SH> That loses the American origin of the network and continues to use
 SH> a figure which may become inaccurate.  But I could live with this:

 SH> "Beginning with a few friends in the United States exchanging
 SH> messages in 1984, FidoNet has grown into a global network."

 TL> But that looses the fact that one of the two original nodes was in
 TL> Maryland. 

Revisionist history? :-)

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