19 Jan 16 18:18, you wrote to me:

 ER>>>>> Origin:                                         Group: Fidon

 WV>>>> "Group: fidon"  ??

 JS>>> New FTN? Typo? I'm leaning toward typo. <g>

 ml>> i suspect it being more that the group was specified as "Fidonet" and
 ml>> the person that did that did not know that the field is limited to
 ml>> five characters 

 WV> I suspect very few people know that, because it isn't specified in the
 WV> Echolist documentation afaik. 

i don't know... i do know that it was specified somewhere...

 WV> I do read in ECHOBASE.MOD:

look! you found it   

 WV>      Group (GROUP) -       This is an abbreviated network affiliation
 WV>             word.  This will prefix the TITLe field (in
 WV>             parentheses) in the FIDONET.NA list of
 WV>             echoes, and may be used in grouping echoes
 WV>             and distributing network-specific lists
 WV>             among other things.  In FamilyNet, the
 WV>             standard abbreviations in use include:
 WV>               FMLY - FamilyNet
 WV>               FIDO - FIDONet
 WV>               CCI  - Canadian Christian Interchange
 WV>               CCN  - Counter Cult Network
 WV>               CDN  - Christian Distribution Net
 WV>               CFN  - Christian Fellowship Net
 WV>               CFC  - Computers for Christ Net
 WV>               MJCN - Messianic Jewish Computer Network
 WV>               UCCN - United Christian Communications Network

 WV> Do all these nets still exist, btw?

looking at the line above that list, those are groups, not nets... not nets as
in FTN networks... more as groups of message areas like the old K-12 group of
echos that used to be carried by fidonet... but most folks, i think, do
consider them as nets... i don't know how many live FTN networks exist today
but there are more than a dozen, TTBOMK...

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