As the last resort you can change the field type to TEXT. That will allow you a great deal of groups to be stored but it will come at a price. You will need to change the index to that field to a FULLTEXT one and then modify the .threads code in every area that this field is queried to comply with the FullText searches of MySQL. It is quite a task but if you must, I see no other alternative.


Nikos

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