gf3/WAT — comment on commit 5f1dc029ef174c44779211bb46f7bafa8493ed13
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By gf3:

This is how it works:

> IRC messages are always lines of characters terminated with a CR-LF (Carriage Return - Line Feed) pair, and these messages shall not exceed 512 characters in length, counting all characters including the trailing CR-LF. Thus, there are 510 characters maximum allowed for the command and its parameters. There is no provision for continuation message lines. See section 7 for more details about current implementations.

[Source](http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1459.html)