On 23 Mar 2019, mark lewis said the following...
 
 ml> NOTE: i've read august's post, now after writing the below but i'm going
 ml> to leave it in place... i now know there was a terminology
 ml> misunderstanding re: the term "empire"... in any case, some of the
 ml> following may still be interesting to you and/or others...
 ml> 
 ml> 
 ml>  On 2019 Mar 22 19:31:54, you wrote to me:
 ml> 
 ml>  GD> On 22 Mar 2019, mark lewis said the following...
 ml> 
 ml>  AA>>>>>> My systems were part of the empire from about 1993 to 2006. In
 ml>  GD>>>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 ml>  GD>>> I do not recall.
 ml> 
 ml>  ml>> FWIW: http://nodehist.fidonet.org.ua/?name=August+Abolins
 ml> 
 ml>  GD> Worked like a charm
 ml>  GD> it confirms what I have already said
 ml> 
 ml> actually it doesn't... one needs the old nodelists from that time to see
 ml> what areas were covered... this listing only shows the address, name,
 ml> location and dates...
 ml> 
 ml>  GD> no where do see August Abolins in the Empire_Net or in New York State
 ml> which
 ml>  GD> is Net 267.
 ml> 
 ml> it is n267 now but it may not have been back then... there was some
 ml> churn at times as new nets were created when existing nets got very
 ml> large and were covering a lot more territory... new nets were created to
 ml> break the area and numbers of systems into more managable pieces...
 ml> 
 ml> for example, in 1993's nodelist.274, the new jersey net, net107,
 ml> included some new york systems... net260 was known as the empire state
 ml> net and included some pennsylvania systems... net267 at that time was
 ml> known as the adirondack net... step back to 1988 and net267 didn't even
 ml> exist...
 ml> 
 ml> there were at least three years where august was listed in two different
 ml> nets... i won't even point out the operator that was listed in net120,
 ml> detroit michigan, with two systems... one of which was located in
 ml> california but listed in net120 :) and let's not forget about region 12
 ml> which was only hawaii at one point :)
 ml> 
 ml> i'm not saying that you or august are wrong... only that further study is
 ml> needed if one really wants to prove or dispute...

Not necessary for several reasons. 
1. He said my bad, he thought I was talking about something else. 
2. He was never in the empire_net or the adirondack_net.
3. There does not always need to dispute, or a powerplay, ego's are already
larger then life -sometimes behind the keyboard and especially in here.

You have already seen how I let it go and how I did not dwell.
There really is no need.

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