TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: ftsc_public
to: Rob Swindell
from: Ward Dossche
date: 2019-08-24 11:38:00
subject: Max subject length: 71 or 72 chars?

>>  RS> Synchronet and SBBSecho has always treated the to, from,
and subject
 >>  RS> fields in FidoNet "Stored Messages" (*.msg
files) and "Packed
 >>  RS> Messages" (those contained in type 2 packets) as
null-terminated
 >>  RS> strings with a maximum *usable* length of 35 characters
for the "to"
 >>  RS> and "from" and a maximum *usable* length of 71
characters for the
 >>  RS> "subject".
 >>
 >> After discussion in the FTSC echo, it is the FTSC's position that this is
 >> the correct interpretation of FTS-0001.016.  These fields must be
 >> null-terminated, and the length specified includes the required NUL (0x00)
 >> byte.

RS> Cool. Let's document that position. :-)

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Ward
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