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echo: fidopols
to: Scott Little
from: Bob Short
date: 2002-09-13 02:50:30
subject: Re: Final P5 draft

On 13 Sep 02  17:58:22, Scott Little said the following to Steven Horn:

SL>  SH> To change the date and number of nodes?  I'm not sure you need to
SL>  SH> change them because they were accurate when P4 was adopted.
 
SL> I don't think Policy is the place for a history lesson.. and it'll always b
SL> out of date to use present tense.  It could be changed to justify the Polic
SL> existence perhaps: "within a few short years, Fidonet grew from
two local 
SL> systems (?) to thousands globally.  Therefore Policy was
created..." (blah 
SL> blah).

Why change the format?  That little "bio" could be described as our
preamble, as it were.  Retaining it, and following it with current
date and numbers, gives the (new) reader  an
idea of what we have become.  :)

Bob

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