Hello Mike.

18 Oct 03 15:50, you wrote to me:

 MG>> Well I distribute quite a lot of internet newsgroups via Squish, and
 MG>> some of them have quite long tag names. The longest one I found was 39
 MG>> characters and even with tab spaces, paths and links, the total line
 MG>> length was 102 characters.

 MT> You mean your ISP doesn't carry:
 MT> alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gillian-andersons-head-on-other-womens-bodi
 MT> es and you don't need to make sure that you don't mix it up
 MT> with: alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.Gillian-Andersons-head-on-other-women
 MT> s-bodies ?

Probably does, but none of my downlinks have requested them, so I don't at
present carry them. And my system can distinguish between the two.

 MT> Then you don't need the true power of Linux. (Those are
 MT> legit, I promise...and I went for margin length, not max length.)

That's still only 75 characters. It can still work with my setup.

 MG>> Although it would be very nice to remove that limit if it can be done,
 MG>> I don't really see it as a big problem. There are lots of ways to
 MG>> control the line length, like removing the unnecessary spaces, placing
 MG>> the message bases in a location that will shorten the path name, using
 MG>> CRC generated file names instead of the echo tag names, and reducing
 MG>> link addresses to 2D wherever possible.

 MT> I'm a command-line junkie, so I keep them short just because I'm going to
 MT> have to type them sometime...not point at them with a mouse.  If I was
 MT> actually interested in those two above they would end up being
"U-1ZDX6"
 MT> and "U-1ZF0T" living in "F:\MSG\" here...but I
still might have trouble
 MT> forwarding them to 200 downlinks.  Right now, I could probably only
 MT> handle the first 115-120 of my points to subscribe.

Even if a system has 200 downlinks, it's very unlikely that all 200 will
want every echo. I'd suspect that out of 200, on average you'd maybe get
50-100 that want any given area.

 MT> Seriously, the existing limit has never even close to an issue for me
 MT> either...but conversely, it wouldn't break any of my short lines if the
 MT> limit doubled or tripled.

True enough. If it doesn't break anything, and helps some, I'm all for it.


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