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Subject:    Re: [Spread-users] max number of groups and max length of group name
From:       Taj Khattra <taj.khattra () pobox ! com>
Date:       2004-03-04 18:05:32
Message-ID: 20040304180532.GB964 () localhost ! localdomain
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:15:37AM -0700, Jim Vickroy wrote:
> (2) Can the maximum length of a group name be increased beyond the
> 32-character limit?

another option to consider if you have long group names is
to use a hash (e.g. md5) of the actual group name as the
Spread group name and, if necessary, have your application
maintain a mapping between the two sets of names.

this allows arbitrarily long group names without having to
modify MAX_GROUP_NAME (otoh, you'll have to maintain the
mapping if you need it)

-taj

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