Hello All.

Does anybody know how far the Fidonet Technical Standars go in files, that
are not directly connected to the mail formats.

Specifically I'm thinking about the arealist format. When I want to get a
list of the area s to which I can connect, I write a message to my node
like this:

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From    
To      Gecho
Subj.   

%List
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And then I get a message in Netmail with the areas to which I'm able to
connect. The message comes to me in netmail and have a format like this:

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 MUSIC                          INTL þ Music
 MUSIKTEKNIK_R23.PUB            FIDO þ Teknisk musik-konference
 MYSTIK_R23.PUB                 FIDO þ Mystik
+NET_DEV                        INTL þ FidoNet Developers
 NEWFILES_R23.PRO               FIDO þ Nye filer i Danmark
 NOVELL                         INTL þ Novell
 OPLYSNING_R23.PUB              FIDO þ Officielle oplysninger
 OS2                            INTL þ OS/2
 OS2-DOSWIN_R23.PUB             FIDO þ OS/2 Dos- & Windows

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The areas to which I'm already connected is prefixed with a '+'.

How much standard is this way of doing things? The thing I want to do, is
making program that is working with this netmail message I get, but I dont
know if it is a good idea to rely on this format as a standard.

Christian

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