200 character channel name limit

Michael Wobst michael at elite-web.de
Sat Mar 5 17:26:38 EST 2005


The limit of 200 is set by the rfc1459 and we try to follow the rfc 
whenever possible.

-Michael


Rachel Llorenna wrote:
> Why exactly did the developers feel it necessary to set the channel
> name length limit to 200 characters, when realistically, few people
> exceed 20 characters for channel names (and that's being generous)?



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