Why the limit of 4000 characters in a PM?

[Gramphos]

I wanted to send some VB code to a person by PM, but it is 7438 characters long (maximum is 4000). Why?

[Gramphos]

I was going to split it in two PMs, but I can't post more then one PM every 90 seconds. Crappy rules.

[Dauphin]

Is Private Messaging designed for that?

Why couldn't you just use e-mail?

[Gramphos]

Re: Is Private Messaging designed for that?

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
Why couldn't you just use e-mail?

I was replying to a PM, and there was no Reply by email button., and I was to lazy to go to the user profile.

[Dauphin]

But not lazy enough to split the reply in two, and send it in two PMs; and in addition have to wait 90 seconds due to "flood control".

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
But not lazy enough to split the reply in two, and send it in two PMs in addition to the 90 seconds wait due to "flood control".

Well, I sent one PM, and I couldn't send the rest by e-mail.

[Dauphin]

On a similar subject, what is the character limit on post sizes?

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
On a similar subject, what is the character limit on post sizes?

20000