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....  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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