diff --git a/src/sdm/ui/ConsoleMessageClient.ts b/src/sdm/ui/ConsoleMessageClient.ts
index 2b716c82..8d3e07da 100644
--- a/src/sdm/ui/ConsoleMessageClient.ts
+++ b/src/sdm/ui/ConsoleMessageClient.ts
@@ -133,10 +133,9 @@ export class ConsoleMessageClient implements MessageClient, SlackMessageClient {
      * @param {string} markdown
      */
     private writeToChannel(channels: string[] | string, markdown: string) {
-        const outputText = withinRenderableSize(markdown) ?
-            marked(` **${channels}** ${this.dateString()} ` + markdown, this.markedOptions) :
-            markdown;
-        return this.sender(chalk.gray("#") + outputText);
+        const outputText = ` ${marked(`**${channels}**`, this.markedOptions).trim()} ${this.dateString()} ${
+            marked(markdown, this.markedOptions).trim()}`;
+        return this.sender(chalk.gray("#") + outputText + "\n");
     }
 
     public dateString() {
@@ -160,15 +159,3 @@ export class ConsoleMessageClient implements MessageClient, SlackMessageClient {
     }
 
 }
-
-/**
- * Make a guess whether the `marked` program can render this in markdown in a reasonable amount of time.
- * We have observed that it can take 60s to render a twelve-item list of sufficient interestingness.
- * See: https://github.com/atomist/sdm-local/issues/123
- */
-function withinRenderableSize(markdown: string): boolean {
-    if (!markdown) {
-        return true;
-    }
-    return (markdown.length < 1000) && (markdown.split("\n").length < 12);
-}
diff --git a/test/cli/ui/ConsoleMessageClient.test.ts b/test/cli/ui/ConsoleMessageClient.test.ts
index 571383ce..0061ed92 100644
--- a/test/cli/ui/ConsoleMessageClient.test.ts
+++ b/test/cli/ui/ConsoleMessageClient.test.ts
@@ -21,11 +21,6 @@ import { ConsoleMessageClient } from "./../../../src/sdm/ui/ConsoleMessageClient
 describe("message formatting", () => {
     it("doesn't freeze on this dangerous string", async () => {
 
-        // This attachment once caused the printing programs to freeze forever.
-        // 3s for 12
-        // 10s for 13
-        // 50s for 14
-        // 16 never returns within our span of patiences
         const suspiciousAttachment: Attachment = {
             author_name: "Commands",
             fallback: "Commands",
@@ -54,5 +49,20 @@ describe("message formatting", () => {
 
         await subject.addressChannels({ text: "I am safe", attachments: [suspiciousAttachment] }, "general");
         assert(output.includes("WhereAmI"), "It's OK if it didn't render it in markdown, but it should display the whole attachment");
+        process.stdout.write(output);
     });
+
+    it("render multi line markdown correct", async () => {
+        const text = `**test some
+bold text**`;
+
+        let output = "";
+        const subject = new ConsoleMessageClient("general", async s => { output = output + s; }, {} as any);
+
+        await subject.addressChannels({ text }, "general");
+        assert(output.includes(`test some
+bold text`));
+        process.stdout.write(output);
+    });
+
 });