From: nospam.g00r00@f215.n129.z1.fidonet.org   
      
    MA> The echomail autocreate areas in 8.3 format is very rare. Works fine   
    MA> around some time and suddenly Mystic stop creating them with short names   
    MA> and autocreate them with long names. Very strange.   
      
   I can't see any place in the code that would cause this.  Do you have a log or   
   an actual example of a name of a base where this happened?  Maybe I can try to   
   recreate it here using the same name.   
      
   ... Computers all wait at the same speed!   
      
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