*** Quoting Thom LaCosta from a message to Steven Horn ***

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 Mar


But who cares where we live?  The most poinient moment in all Fidonet I can
¨recall, was from a fellow who as his last few hours posted a note on how
much ¨we all meant to one another and how much we had meant to him.  He
died ¨literally a few hours later, but his words and soul were something we
as a ¨group have yet to achieve be he believed with all his heart in.

Communication.  Soul.  Who we really are besides all the trappings, is more
¨than most of us think about except when pressed.

It matters not where the soul I recall came from, nor where the first few
were ¨from.  It;s global.  Remove the comments on USA as anything specific
as we grew ¨long past that.
                                       xxcarol

--- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4