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Updated README.md to mention the current rate limits.

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@ -22,12 +22,11 @@ You can find the whole app packed into one fat jar file under
containing your chats. This feature is still in the works.
## Limitations
This tool relies on Telegram's API. Apparently they don't like people who
download lots of media files, so this app gets blocked after about 2000
downloaded media files. This is nothing bad; the app detects this and waits
the necessary amount of time as dictated by Telegram. Since this delay can
be quite large (I've seen 50 minutes), downloading lots and lots of media
can take some time.
This tool relies on Telegram's API. They started rate limiting the calls
made by this tool some time ago. As of february 2017, downloading messages
is limited to 400 messages every 30 seconds, resulting in 48,000 messages
per hour. Media download is not throttled right now, so it should be a lot
quicker.
But since this tool is designed to be able to continue it's work at any
time, you can just abort the download and continue it later - that way,