What is the practical limit of a textarea?

Using IE6+, what is the maximum amount of text you can POST with a <textarea> before something breaks?

Edit: The answer I'm hoping for is "there's no way you could actually type something meaningful and unmallicious int开发者_StackOverflow社区o a textarea and crash Internet Explorer."

Because of the way POST data is sent there's no low-end limit to the number of characters you can send. There is an upper bound, of course. How much data are you talking about here?

The answer is sneezing will cause IE to collapse, sneezing softly doubly so for IE6

there's no way you could actually type something meaningful into a textarea and crash Internet Explorer..IE6+

Wouldn't it make more sense to have the users upload a file instead of copying and pasting 20 to 30 thousand characters into the textarea?