Forums General Discussion Message length

After hours of searching the net and here(read as a few minutes) and coming up with nothing, can someone tell me how many characters can be sent in one message, and do burko codes each count as a character, i.e

would be 17 characters?

Is this number dependant on the network or is it part of the IRC protocol?

btk

Control codes are included in the message length.

The 'standard' is 512 bytes per message (including the ending cr and/or lf), but this could be easily increased by the irc server. This includes the additional parameters in your message ('PRIVMSG <target> :' rest-of-line), and if distributed across the network your nick prefix (':<yournick>' rest-of-line). Some servers use techniques such as tokenisation and nickids to reduce the size of the message across the network.

Some servers may also enforce additional limits on certain messages.

Hope that helps

thanks a lot skip, very informative.



btk