24 Jan 16 08:46, you wrote to Damon A. Getsman:

 RN>> No, it isn't.  Where did you get that idea?

 DAG>> I don't know, but one of the documents I was looking at had things a
 DAG>> little bit messed up, I suspect.  I've had this echo set up on my
 DAG>> BBS that way for some time.  What's the proper long title for the
 DAG>> echo, if I might ask?   Thanks for letting me know, too.

 RN> The long title is BAMA

that's the short title, aka echotag ;)

 RN> and no, I don't know why it was given that name.  I took it over from
 RN> a guy no longer in Fidonet.

i remember that...

 RN> The area description is Science Research Echo.

that's the long title, AFAIK... the description in the echolist is those lines
that start with DESC which most mail tosser and/or bbs software never imported
;)

 RN> Thank you all for the heads-up.

you're welcome from these parts...

/EOT

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