I actually find it not stupid at all... Yes it is sometimes annoying. But when you think of the millions that uses those profiles, it seems logic to me that msn puts a limit on the textlength you can use. I would do the same I think. Also, a fixed textlength is faster to process in databases then a variable length. And afterall, that field is a "quote"-field, not a "write_a_long_poem_in_here"-field....
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