Hi mark,

On 2016-01-19 18:03:38, you wrote to me:

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

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

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

 WV>> I do read in ECHOBASE.MOD:

 ml> look! you found it   

There's no mention of a limit!?

 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?

 ml> looking at the line above that list, those are groups, not nets...

Same difference. 

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

I've never heard of most of these nets (except FamilyNet). The author of this
document must have been some kind of religious fanatic, given the list of
examples! 

Bye, Wilfred.

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