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ebgreen
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I would consider that like saying that HTML format tags should not count toward the overall size of an HTML file. Surely no one would put them there except for formatting. Regardless it is an arbitrary limit on the size of the string. The string must be stored as a complete string in the database because the parsing is done when the page is rendered. Not when you store the string. So, if there were some way to not count formatting tags in the allowed size, that means that if I took humbrage with the site, all I would need to do is to keep adding tags to my signature until I eventually overflowed the allowed storage size in the DB where the signature is stored. You are essentially dealing with HTML here. The code tags are simply text just like the content of the sig. They have to be stored in the DB just like the content. They take up space in the DB just like the content. So they count toward the allowable storage limit just like the content.
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