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Patch from Zac West which performs periodic WHO updates on IRC channel participants in order to track 'away' status, userhost, and real name. Plucked from a series of im.pidgin.adium commits.

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.