Hi, Mark!  Recently you wrote in a message to Wilfred van Velzen:

 ER>>>>> Origin:                                        Group: Fidon

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

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

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


            Ah.  I didn't know it was limited to five characters either.



 WV> I do read in ECHOBASE.MOD:

 ml> look! you found it ;) ;) B-)


            Uh-huh.  Now look again at these lines:


 WV>      Group (GROUP) -
 WV>      This is an abbreviated network affiliation word.

                          [....]

 WV>               FIDO - FIDONet


             While some folks leave the space blank, others... including
you & Dallas... use "FIDO" in at least some of their updates.



 WV> Do all these nets still exist, btw?

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


             IIRC Bob Hoffman was gating msgs to & from FamilyNet at
one time. I'm not clear on the details, but I think "FIDO" was
meant to refer to our own beloved Fidonet & the remainder may be
Othernets we've never heard of....  :-)




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