Hi mark,   
      
   On 2016-01-19 18:03:38, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml>>> i suspect it being more that the group was specified as "Fidonet"   
    ml>>> and the person that did that did not know that the field is limited   
    ml>>> to five characters ;)   
      
    WV>> I suspect very few people know that, because it isn't specified in the   
    WV>> Echolist documentation afaik. ;)   
      
    ml> i don't know... i do know that it was specified somewhere...   
      
    WV>> I do read in ECHOBASE.MOD:   
      
    ml> look! you found it ;) ;) B-)   
      
   There's no mention of a limit!?   
      
    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?   
      
    ml> looking at the line above that list, those are groups, not nets...   
      
   Same difference. ;)   
      
    ml> not nets as in FTN networks... more as groups of message areas like   
    ml> the old K-12 group of echos that used to be carried by fidonet... but   
    ml> most folks, i think, do consider them as nets... i don't know how many   
    ml> live FTN networks exist today but there are more than a dozen,   
    ml> TTBOMK...   
      
   I've never heard of most of these nets (except FamilyNet). The author of this   
   document must have been some kind of religious fanatic, given the list of   
   examples! ;)   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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