-=> On 09-24-02  23:23, Steven Horn <=-
 -=> spoke to Bob Short about Final P5 draft <=-

 SH> Bob Short (1:105/38) wrote to Lawrence Garvin at 15:33 on 18 Sep
 SH> 2002: 
 BS> How this? :
 
 BS> FidoNet is an amateur electronic mail system.  As such, all of its
 BS> partici- pants and operators are unpaid volunteers.  From it's
 BS> begining in 1984 as a few friends exchanging messages, FidoNet has
 BS> grown into a global network with thousands of nodes.
 
 SH> As a grammatical point, that is "its beginning" not "it's 
 SH> beginning".  The possessive does not apply here.

 Actually, the "its" is the possessive and is also correct here, rather
 than the contraction "it's" (meaning "it is").

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