Hello Michael!

18 Oct 03 14:03, Michael Grant wrote to Mike Tripp:

 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.

You mean your ISP doesn't carry:
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gillian-andersons-head-on-other-womens-bodies
and you don't need to make sure that you don't mix it up with:
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.Gillian-Andersons-head-on-other-womens-bodies
?
Then you don't need the true power of Linux.
(Those are legit, I promise...and I went for margin length, not max length.)

 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.

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

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

.\\ike

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