As per discussion on irc.
The maximum length of a message over irc is 510 characters, that's incuding the sender, command and recipient, thus if you are using say a 30 character nick:
:somereallylongnickname PRIVMSG MemoServ@services.dal.net :SEND visigoth some message
that right there is 76 characters minus the 510 limit, so the max length memo there would be roughly 434 characters.
srd
On 9 March 2012 16:59, Bradley Claghorn visigoth@mysterial.org wrote:
I imagine this has probably been requested before, but I am curious to how people feel these days about the option of having a longer memo limit. Say, double, like 512 characters instead of 255, or 511.
Discuss...
Thank you!
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On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Holbrook Bunting srd@powertrip.net wrote:
:somereallylongnickname PRIVMSG MemoServ@services.dal.net :SEND visigoth some message that right there is 76 characters minus the 510 limit, so the max length memo there would be roughly 434 characters.
One way around the IRC message limit would be to have an option for a stateful dialog option with MemoServ and a multi-line memo capability; then instead of having a 255 character limit, have an 100 characters per line limit; and a 4 or 5 line limit when utilizing such an option.
The IRC message limit might not be the most significant issue though. Longer messages might require a different data storage architecture; e.g. a different kind of database field. There is some degree of potential that larger messages could be abused in various ways, not necessarily, but still a potential consideration.
e.g. /query memoserv => compose #<channel> + -MemoServ- Ready to accept message for <channel>, to add a line to your memo, enter +<text>, 'done' to send 'cancel' to discard and abort. => +line1 -MemoServ- Line added => +line2 -MemoServ- Line added => done -Memoserv- Memo sent.
srd
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