In news:OnRS6cVZGHA.4248@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl,
Herb Martin <news@LearnQuick.com> stated, which I commented on below:

> Maybe I can .
>
> If you write a TXT record (for SPF etc) that is too long
> (and I forget the actual limit but generally make it fit
> in the dialog width and you are ok) then you WILL get
> truncated behavior -- if not in the console itself, in the
> return value to client requests.
>
> IF HOWEVER you (artificially) use your own line
> breaks it seems to work for most all purposes.
>
> There are also absolute limits beyond which at least
> some clients and SPF processing software (that is
> common) will blow up on your records.
>
> The following (rather long) record works -- it is
> LITERALLY 5 lines as shown:
>
> v=spf1 ip4:64.202.167.0/24 ip4:64.202.189.0/24
> ip4:64.202.166.0/24 ip4:64.202.165.0/24 ip4:64.202.163.0/24
> ip4:68.178.144.60/31 include:in.spf.secureserver.net
> include:spf.learnquick.com include:deleted.com
> include:ak.learnquick.com ip4:68.178.144.167 -all

I checked your txt record. But didn't count the characters. Was that more
than 512 bytes?

I know this is a month and a half from the original post, and probably the
original poster has long forgotten it, but have you tried it with 1000
characters?

Ace