From 334abe491c92a843c58bb20082411ee429357d7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:18:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Document some limitations.

---
 irker.xml | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/irker.xml b/irker.xml
index a174c8c..fb37c42 100644
--- a/irker.xml
+++ b/irker.xml
@@ -51,8 +51,6 @@ will be prepended to it before shipping.</para>
 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>
@@ -92,6 +90,10 @@ known to spew spam is always a good idea.</para>
 <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>
-- 
2.26.2