19 Jan 16 18:18, you wrote to me:   
      
    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   
    ml>> the person that did that did not know that the field is limited to   
    ml>> five characters ;)   
      
    WV> I suspect very few people know that, because it isn't specified in the   
    WV> Echolist documentation afaik. ;)   
      
   i don't know... i do know that it was specified somewhere...   
      
    WV> I do read in ECHOBASE.MOD:   
      
   look! you found it ;) ;) B-)   
      
    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?   
      
   looking at the line above that list, those are groups, not nets... not nets as   
   in FTN networks... more as groups of message areas like the old K-12 group of   
   echos that used to be carried by fidonet... but most folks, i think, do   
   consider them as nets... i don't know how many live FTN networks exist today   
   but there are more than a dozen, TTBOMK...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   "So let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you've   
   killed all the bad guys, and when it's all perfect, and just and fair, and   
   when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going   
   to do with the people like you? The trouble makers. How are you going to   
   protect your glorious revolution from the next one?" - The twelfth Doctor   
      
   ... Blame Saint Andreas - its all his fault.   
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