From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:10:00 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Document multisend.
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Document multisend.
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diff --git a/irkerd.xml b/irkerd.xml
index 1b63d20..9b0161e 100644
--- a/irkerd.xml
+++ b/irkerd.xml
@@ -91,9 +91,12 @@ known to spew spam is always a good idea.</para>
 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>
 
 <refsect1 id='authors'><title>AUTHOR</title>