Subject Line Length?

Current mood: cynical

The “hidden” meaning of the title should be self-evident.

I posit that a posting’s title should probably be less than one line across the top of the field reserved for the title.

Here’s the full title I typed in –

Exactly How Long Should One Of These Subject Lines Last?! I Mean, Seriously, I Could Probably Get a Whole Paragraph Well Maybe Not A Paragraph But Definitely A Long Sentence. What Do Y’all Think? Is This Too Long? Maybe I Should Go On a Few Lines More? How Much Is Too Much Here? It Doesn’t Seem to Cut Off At 255 Characters, Like MS Windows Does With Filenames. How Many Words Should You Need In A Subject Line To Adequately Let People Know What The Topic Is All About?

Here’s the error message that I received after I clicked “Publish Post” –

We’re Sorry

A problem seems to have occurred. Please correct the following:

     The Post Title is over 200 characters

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NOTES

1. Original article
2. Reposted –
   1. Personal blogs – Xanga
   2. Darth Mike

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