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Don't try to enable our server-stored buddylist if we receive an error from an ssi snac. We've been doing this since 2003, and I'm really not sure why. I think my original thought was that if we failed to retrieve our buddy list we could at least communicate with people. But with the current code we'll try to refetch our buddylist in 30 seconds, so I think it's better to just wait it out. Plus, I think you might actually be able to IM people without your buddylist... they just won't see you online.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.