"Check message length" for post - so how long can posts be?

[Vanguard]

When sending private messages, 1000 characters is the maximum length. Being as verbose as I am, that means I typically have to edit the message to get it down under that maximum.

When posting a new message to a thread, I noticed there is also a "Check message length" link at the bottom of the input area for the post's body. It tells me how many characters are in my post. Okay, but is there a maximum limit to how many characters can be in a post?

[DJC]

If there is a maximum, it will tell you when you click the "Check Message Length" link. TTLG has a 15,000 character limit per post.

Currently, in the interests of brevity, we have it set to a 1500 character limit.

[Peter Smith]

1500??? GM, are you referring to PMs or posts? Vanguard asked what is the limit to a real forum post. I hope that is not 1500 characters. That would be way too small. I know we have made quite a few posts much longer than that. 10,000 characters, maybe 120 lines, would be more like it for things like ghost reports. DJC is on the right track.

[Salvage]

Oh, it's much larger than 1500 characters. Just take a look at one of the "archive" threads, far more than 1500 characters in there.

[Peter Smith]

I agree, the limit probably is larger than 1500. However, archives don't count. What counts is present policy, which we still don't know.

[Vanguard]

Well, I know the forum post maximum message length has to be over 3300 characters since one of the ghost reports in the part3 ghost FM thread is that long - and I can far more verbose than that.

[Salvage]

My post in the tid-bits thread is 54634 characters long without spaces and 57992 with spaces(courtesy of Microsoft Word). I think this was before the limits were added though. Either that or the limit is somewhere around 60,000.

Speaking of archives, I was lurking at the vBulliten site forums(either vbulliten.com or vbulliten.org, I was at both) and they're adding in archiving threads in the next version(which is a good thing!).

Doh!

My error...there is currently no limit to posting size, and the limit to PM is 1500 characters.