Subj : Max subject length: 71 or 72 chars?
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Fri Aug 23 2019 08:58 pm

  Re: Max subject length: 71 or 72 chars?
  By: Andrew Leary to Rob Swindell on Fri Aug 23 2019 08:09 am

 > Hello Rob!
 >
 > 18 Aug 19 17:37, you wrote to all:
 >
 >  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.

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

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