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Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters"

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On 14/01/2016 00:36, Sylvia Else wrote:
> And you waited until I tried to submit it before telling me this
> because....?
>
> Why the limit anyway? If the required detail dictates a longer message,
> then that's what's needed. If I omit details because they won't fit,
> you'll have to contact me to get them.
>
> My cynical nature makes me suspect the limit's there for no better
> reason than that your developer doesn't know how to handle arbitrary
> length data.

What's the reason for 140-character limits for SMS and for Twitter?

Perhaps it's to encourage people to keep to the point!

Without a limit, people could copy & paste War and Peace, or Mime 
encodings of multi-GB binary files (and suppose hundreds of people 
maliciously planned to do just that, all at the same time).

When I submit my paper tax return, there is a panel for extra 
information, which usually suggests continuing on separate sheets of 
paper if the space is insufficient. So your 500 characters could include 
a link to a bigger document.

-- 
Bartc

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"Please limit your message to 500 characters" Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-14 11:36 +1100
  Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-14 00:57 +0000
  Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-01-14 01:33 +0000
    Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-14 02:30 +0000
      Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-01-17 16:39 +0100
        Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> - 2016-01-18 01:20 +0100
  Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-13 21:12 -0500
  Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2016-01-21 17:59 +0000
    Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-22 11:13 +1100
      Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-22 00:47 +0000
        Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-22 13:54 +1100
        Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-22 23:02 +0000
          Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-01-29 10:22 +0100

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