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From: werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Lenght limitations
Summary: (attempt at) a humorous remark; don't read if you can't smile ...:-)
Message-ID: <3404@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 88 16:28:37 GMT
References: <682@ethz.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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In article <682@ethz.UUCP>, lubich@ethz.UUCP (Hannes Lubich) writes:
> Hi folks,

	Salue, Hannes.

> we are just discussion a new naming scheme here at ETHZ During the 
> discussion, the question was raised whether there are any restrictions 
> concerning the lenght of an RFC-822 address and, especially, the local part 
> of an RFC-822 address.
> I tend to remember a 80 characters limitation in SMTP that was later
> changed to 265 characters but I'd be interested if there are other limits.
> If you know about such limitations, please drop me a mail.

	have you heard of the "sanity-length-limitation"?     (-:

	for a counter-ecample check some of the sitenames of the Uni
	Dortmund......
				:-(

	yours is certainly a valid question - but the substance (80 chars) 
	scares the heck out of me;  how many chars in a foreign proper name
	do you think I can type without an error?  how many retries do
	you think I am going to make when my mail bounces?  If you can't
	say it in 8 chars, don't say it at all;  otherwise it becomes
	an interesting scheme to reduce the volume of mail to your users !

			((-:	:-))

PS: sorry I could not contribute anything of more substance;  but I figure
	you can read the RFCs just as well as I can ...

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