Subj : Echo Tag Length
To   : Oli
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Sun Nov 22 2020 16:28:08

Hello Oli!

Sunday November 22 2020 13:43, you wrote to Rob Swindell:

 > Rob wrote (2020-11-21):

 >>> No, 60 or less ASCII characters with decimal code >=33 and <=126.
 >>> So tab, space, carriage return and new line are not allowed.

 RS>> I wonder what official maximum length of an area/echo tag (a.k.a.
 RS>> conference id) actually is.

 > Depends what you mean with "official". There is FSC-0074:

 >      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.

 > I assume this maximum length was chosen because of the standard 80
 > character width of the terminal. I don't interpret it as a hard limit,
 > but I don't see the need for longer names (not sure if there are
 > newsgroups that have longer names)

A good reason for NOT exceeding this limit is that if you try and make it
larger a lot of bbs and other software may well produce odd results.


Vincent

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