Not sure what a "reasonable" number of characters is but I have some users trying to use thier names AND company as another form of free advertising.. while I don't mind it per se .. I do mind the added width causing grief at various resolutions on summary pages?

Request: Ability to truncate long user/public names in forum summary screens.

Thanks!

Opps meant this for version 6.7x - Can a Mod please movei t for me ...

This will probably get you more than halfway there:

http://www.ubbdev.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/202155/page/1#Post202155