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>
+<para>IRC has a message length limit of 510 bytes generate your privmsg attribute values with appropriate care.</para>
+
+<para>IRC ignores any text after an embedded newline. Be aware that
+<application>irkerd</application> will turn payload strungs with
+embedded newlines into multiple IRC sends to avoid having message data
+discarded. </para>
</refsect1>
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