Subj : Re: Valid conference names
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Thu Dec 02 2021 11:08 am

 Re: Re: Valid conference names
 By: Ward Dossche to Rob Swindell on Thu Dec 02 2021 10:34 am

> Rob,
>
> RS>> > CONFERENCE is the name of the conference. The
> RS>> > conference name is composed of ASCII characters in
> RS>> > the range 33 to 96 and 123 to 126.  The conference
> RS>> > name shall be no more than 60 characters in length.
>
> RS> And I thought 50 was the general accepted maximum echo-tag length. :-(
>
> 54

What's the reference for a max echo-tage length of 54?

For 50, I have FMail (tosser) and Mystic BBS software. So that's that length limit that I'm currently imposing in SBBSecho.

This does seem to be a pretty important FidoNet element that should've been well-defined long ago.

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