Re: Max length of an email subject line

[Alan C <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This reminded me of the company I worked for where they thought it would 
be a good idea to have a program make automated calls to all their best 
customers in the evenings to announce their sales specials. During the 
time they're at home of course, with their family. They just announced 
it one day, just like that! 

Anyway, they were the new (and remote) owners, and I was programming 
access to the "legacy" data, so if they were going to ask anybody, they 
weren't going to ask me either.

It didn't even last a week!

--Alan



David Gibbs wrote:

> Bob Crothers wrote:
>  
>
> > I've got a customer who wants us to expand the Subject line to 256 characters.  
> > First step is to find if it is even valid to be that long.  *I* wouldn't want 
> > to receive one that long, but they aren't asking my opinion...and they are 
> > paying the bills.  So they'll get it.
> >    
>
> Unless the subject line is intended to be interpreted by a program, I would 
> absolutely advise this customer *NOT* to do this.
>
> It's kind of like making a filename 256 characters long ... it's fine if a 
> computer needs to deal with it, but not a human.
>
> david
>