NOTE: i've read august's post, now after writing the below but i'm going to
leave it in place... i now know there was a terminology misunderstanding re:
the term "empire"... in any case, some of the following may still be
interesting to you and/or others...


 On 2019 Mar 22 19:31:54, you wrote to me:

 GD> On 22 Mar 2019, mark lewis said the following...

 AA>>>>>> My systems were part of the empire from about 1993 to 2006. In
 GD>>>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 GD>>> I do not recall.

 ml>> FWIW: http://nodehist.fidonet.org.ua/?name=August+Abolins

 GD> Worked like a charm
 GD> it confirms what I have already said

actually it doesn't... one needs the old nodelists from that time to see what
areas were covered... this listing only shows the address, name, location and
dates...

 GD> no where do see August Abolins in the Empire_Net or in New York State
which
 GD> is Net 267.

it is n267 now but it may not have been back then... there was some churn at
times as new nets were created when existing nets got very large and were
covering a lot more territory... new nets were created to break the area and
numbers of systems into more managable pieces...

for example, in 1993's nodelist.274, the new jersey net, net107, included some
new york systems... net260 was known as the empire state net and included some
pennsylvania systems... net267 at that time was known as the adirondack net...
step back to 1988 and net267 didn't even exist...

there were at least three years where august was listed in two different
nets... i won't even point out the operator that was listed in net120, detroit
michigan, with two systems... one of which was located in california but listed
in net120 :) and let's not forget about region 12 which was only hawaii at one
point :)

i'm not saying that you or august are wrong... only that further study is
needed if one really wants to prove or dispute...

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