Subj : Re: Valid conference names
To   : Nil Alexandrov
From : Tim Schattkowsky
Date : Mon Nov 15 2021 12:51:12

//Hallo Nil, //

am *15.11.21* um *5:25:14* schriebst Du in der Area *FTSC_PUBLIC*
an *Tim Schattkowsky* eine Mail zum
Thema *"Valid conference names"*.

 NA> Hello, Tim!

 NA> 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).

 NA> http://ftsc.org/docs/fsc-0074.001

 >> 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.

Thanks! I knew it was there but somehow missed it on first sight.

 TS>> I would suspect, that it has to be latin letters only plus numbers and a
 TS>> few special chars and matching the name is case-insensitve!?

 NA> Technically, lower case letters are not allowed, but there are plenty of
 NA> software in the wild which accept any letter case. Basically, echo tag is
 NA> not case-sensitive.

These lower-case systems bother me. At least now I know I can safely upcase the names found in such lists to keep internal management consistent. 

 TS>> Also, in my world conference names should be presented as uppercase.

 NA> True.

 TS>> Background: I am rewriting part of the areas management code in winpoint
 TS>> and ran into some interesting corner cases ...

 NA> FTSC can help you.

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Bis denne ...
               Tim Schattkowsky
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