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Check in a change requested by Gregory Cypes from AOL. They want clients to be able to specify the clientstring and distribution id used when authenticating. Seems like a reasonable request. If the UI doesn't change these preferences then the default values from the ClientInfo struct are used.

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.