On Thu, 08 May 2003 09:25:15 EDT, "Hiler, John" <[log in to unmask]>  said:
> I have found there is a 32 character limit on list names.

At the moment, we have 4,888 lists on our Listserv.  The breakdown by
length of names is:

% find . -name '*.list' | awk '{printf length($0) -5 "\n"}' | sort -n | uniq -c
  10 4
 131 5
 176 6
 160 7
 264 8
 384 9
 369 10
 240 11
 219 12
 274 13
 506 14
 503 15
 930 16
  97 17
  81 18
  74 19
 139 20
  62 21
  30 22
  38 23
  31 24
  17 25
  35 26
  24 27
  22 28
  14 29
   5 30
   6 31
  34 32
   6 33
   6 34
   1 36

There's quite obvious user distaste for having to type over 20 chars for
the listname - you might want to think about that issue when worrying about
whether "over 32 chars" is legal.  Will anybody want to *USE* a list called
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