> How large is bb.readableBytes generally?

In my observations it was smaller than the statsd buffer size I had set in my client (1500 bytes).

> Here's a failing test...

Good catch. Fixed in 00fdd91819c73d145e00a682a7abd045ca34c93d.  I added the test and rewrote the method that converted the buffers to strings.  It operates directly on `ByteBuf` instances now instead of `byte[]`s.

The corresponding tests in `StringListBuilderTest` were changed to reflect this.

The only difference is that a newline is not required after the last message (entirely allowed though).