Subj : Valid conference names
To   : Nil Alexandrov
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Wed Dec 01 2021 08:49 pm

 Re: Valid conference names
 By: Nil Alexandrov to Tim Schattkowsky on Mon Nov 15 2021 08:25 am

> Hello, Tim!
>
> Monday November 15 2021 03:47, from Tim Schattkowsky -> All:
>
>  TS> is there anyplace where it is defined, what a valid fidonet conference
>  TS> name is (syntactically).
>
> http://ftsc.org/docs/fsc-0074.001

FSC-74 was never an adopted FidoNet standard however.

> > CONFERENCE is the name of the conference. The
> > conference name is composed of ASCII characters in
> > the range 33 to 96 and 123 to 126.  The conference
> > name shall be no more than 60 characters in length.

And I thought 50 was the general accepted maximum echo-tag length. :-(

>  TS> I would suspect, that it has to be latin letters only plus numbers and
>  TS> a few special chars and matching the name is case-insensitve!?
>
> Technically, lower case letters are not allowed, but there are plenty of
> software in the wild which accept any letter case. Basically, echo tag is
> not case-sensitive.

If I were to define it, I would also specify that the first character of an echo-tag must be alpha-numeric. Echo-tags beginning with '+' or '%' or other special characters could be problematic.

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