On 15 Sep 02  19:43:15, Steven Horn said the following to Bob Short:

SH>  BS> How's this:
SH> 
SH>  BS> ... volunteers.  Beginning with a few friends exchanging messages
SH>  BS> in 1984, FidoNet has grown into a global network consisting of
SH>  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:

Let's not take this Patriot thing to far now...   Remember, the
current version makes no claim.  Why add it now, and invoke the ire
of our non-Z1 friends?

Believe be, if the figure "thousands" gets inacurate, it will be the
least of our worrys.  As a global network, having less than 2k will
mean the end anyway.**

Bob

 

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