colon, as shown in the third example; otherwise
<application>irker</application> sends messages to the the default 6667 IRC
port of each server.</para>
-
-
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='options'><title>OPTIONS</title>
<para>The absence of any option to set the service port is deliberate.
If you think you need to do that, you have a problem better solved at
your firewall.</para>
+
+<para>IRC has a message length limit of 510 bytes and ignores any text
+after an embedded \n; generate your privmsg attribute values with
+appropriate care.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='authors'><title>AUTHOR</title>