Subj : Re^2:  Valid conference names
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Tim Schattkowsky
Date : Sun Dec 05 2021 09:14 pm

//Hello Ward,//

on *02.12.21* at *9:34:12* You wrote in rea *FTSC_PUBLIC*
to *Rob Swindell* about *"Re: Valid conference names"*.

 RS>>> > CONFERENCE is the name of the conference. The
 RS>>> > conference name is composed of ASCII characters in
 RS>>> > the range 33 to 96 and 123 to 126.  The conference
 RS>>> > name shall be no more than 60 characters in length.

 RS>> And I thought 50 was the general accepted maximum echo-tag length. :-(

 WD> 54

I have to admit that during the recent changes to WP I desperatly needed 8 bytes extra data per stored message while maintaining compatibility with existing data (and even old WP versions operating on the data) ... 

... and ended up taking these 8 bytes from the area name field, reducing the fully supported area name size internally to 51 characters+terminating zero. That day I was under the assumption, that I had the 60-character limited self-imposed ...

Since this not really existis in the wild, I should fix it ... but its non-triavial as i REALLY needed those 8 bytes ... Damn! 

Regards,
Tim
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