Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to Steven Horn at 17:58 on 13 Sep 2002:

 SL> I don't think Policy is the place for a history lesson.. and it'll
 SL> always be out of date to use present tense.  It could be changed to
 SL> justify the Policy's existence perhaps: "within a few short years,
 SL> Fidonet grew from two local systems (?) to thousands globally. 
 SL> Therefore Policy was created..." (blah blah blah).


I'd be more inclined to change it this way:

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"... volunteers.  From its early beginning in 1984 as a network of a few
friends in the United States swapping messages back and forth, it has
developed into a global network."

I suspect you could live with that.:-)
 
Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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