Author Topic: 80 charactor limit? (Read 646 times)

Lusche · « **Reply #1 on:** October 20, 2013, 03:26:20 PM »

why?

That's the limit for the subject line...

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #2 on:** October 20, 2013, 03:32:13 PM »

I was trying to reply to a post in hardware software

Lusche · « **Reply #3 on:** October 20, 2013, 03:36:53 PM »

I was trying to reply to a post in hardware software

and the added "Re:" in the subject line pushed it past the 80 character limit.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #4 on:** October 20, 2013, 03:53:03 PM »

ahhhhh

APDrone · « **Reply #5 on:** October 21, 2013, 06:15:02 AM »

Probably due to the screen limits of the first versions of internet BBSs.

Mainframes only allowed 80 char width.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #6 on:** October 21, 2013, 06:23:47 AM »

Please see the sticky post at the top of this forum.

Thank you.

ImADot · « **Reply #7 on:** October 21, 2013, 06:25:23 AM »

Probably due to the screen limits of the first versions of internet BBSs.

Mainframes only allowed 80 char width.

If only people would realize that a subject line is meant to be short, and the body of the post is where they're supposed to write the details...

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