- - Topic is no longer limited to 127 characters. The only limit is now the maximum
- length of a irc command, i.e. 512 bytes. (in pratice, this limits the topic to about
- 490 characters due to protocol overhead)
+ - Channel topics are no longer limited to 127 characters: now the only limit
+ is the maximum length of an IRC command, i. e. 512 bytes (in pratice, this
+ limits the topic to about 490 characters due to protocol overhead).