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Title: 80 charactor limit?
Post by: DREDIOCK on October 20, 2013, 03:21:05 PM

why?

Title: Re: 80 charactor limit?
Post by: Lusche on October 20, 2013, 03:26:20 PM

Quote from: DREDIOCK on October 20, 2013, 03:21:05 PM

why?

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

Title: Re: 80 charactor limit?
Post by: DREDIOCK on October 20, 2013, 03:32:13 PM

I was trying to reply to a post in hardware software

Title: Re: 80 charactor limit?
Post by: Lusche on October 20, 2013, 03:36:53 PM

Quote from: DREDIOCK on October 20, 2013, 03:32:13 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.

Title: Re: 80 charactor limit?
Post by: DREDIOCK on October 20, 2013, 03:53:03 PM

ahhhhh

Title: Re: 80 charactor limit?
Post by: APDrone 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.

 :old:

Title: Re: 80 charactor limit?
Post by: Skuzzy on October 21, 2013, 06:23:47 AM

Please see the sticky post (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,351505.0.html) at the top of this forum.

Thank you.

Title: Re: 80 charactor limit?
Post by: ImADot on October 21, 2013, 06:25:23 AM

Quote from: APDrone 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.

 :old:

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...

 ;)