Re: How big should an Email address field be?

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

I respect your opinion, however we have a customer that is mushrooming 
in size.  Their internet standards are a little primitive yet.  Their 
email addresses exceed 54 characters.  Telling our bosses that we think 
they should get a live & a new ISP wasn't in the book 'How to win friends 
and influence people'.

Have you thought about variable length fields in your database?






bob@cstoneindy.com on 08/18/99 07:00:12 PM
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Opinion time.  How big should an Email address field be?  I know 30 is 
to small.  is 64 large enough?  I suspect anybody who has one that is 
128 should get a life & a new ISP.

What do you think?

Bob Crothers

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