Hi,

On 2016-01-19 09:11:28, mark lewis wrote to Jeff Smith:
  about: "Update - R14_RC":

 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 as
"Fidonet" and the
 ml> person that did that did not know that the field is limited to five
 ml> characters ;)

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

I do read in ECHOBASE.MOD:

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

Do all these nets still exist, btw?


Bye, Wilfred.


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