Subj : Re: Max subject length: 71 or 72 chars?
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sun Aug 25 2019 05:11 pm

  Re: Re: Max subject length: 71 or 72 chars?
  By: Ward Dossche to Rob Swindell on Mon Aug 26 2019 01:53 am

 > Hi Rob,
 >
 > RS> But again, it should be made clear that the "72 bytes" here includes the
 > RS> required null terminator, so a message subject is in fact limited to a
 > RS> maxmimum length of 71 characters.
 >
 > From my point of view you were cherry-picking, probably involuntary, from
 > sections B1 and C1.

I'm pointing out the issues with the "subject" definition. Did you want me to quote the entire spec?

 > They're 2 different kinds of beast.

If you eliminate or ignore the "Stored Message" definition from the spec, then it would be less contradictory. I also think the Stored Message definition doesn't really belong in the same spec as the packet definition.

 > And do you also know where the "71" comes from ?

Well, I took 72 and subtracted 1 (for the required null byte). I assume the 72 came from 36 (the total length of the to and from fields) multiplied by 2. Is there some other significance of 71 that I'm not aware of?

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