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for those playing along at home, you can clip the newsletter text to 200 characters by:
in index.php change (line 169 in release 2.0.1):
le="color: #000000"><?php $messages['message'] = strip_tags(trim($myarray['message']));
to
le="color: #000000"><?php $messages['message'] = xoops_substr(strip_tags(trim($myarray['message'])), 0, 200);
If necessary, I can add a config option so that the user can control how many characters are used.