on Sep Sep 02 05:45, Bob Short wrote to Steven Horn:

 BS> 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 
 SH>>  BS> messages in 1984, FidoNet has grown into a global network 
 SH>>  BS> consisting of 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:

 BS> Let's not take this Patriot thing to far now...   Remember, the

Um... it really *is* true that it started in the USA, regardless of how far
it's spread thereafter.  Truth is not an insult per se.  But it's also true
that where it started, while important to a history of FIDOnet is
irrelevant to this document.  Even the date is only marginally so, though
I'd leave it in because of that margin.  Just pull the line
"consisting of thousands of nodes" and the quoted sample is fine.

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