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Added `flap_connection_send_snac_with_priority()`, which allows specifying high versus low priority for the SNAC to be sent. If we are not rate limited, a SNAC is always sent immediately. If we are at or near the rate limit, the SNAC may be queued to be sent when it wouldn't violate a rate limit to do so. Previously, SNACs were always sent in the order requested. A SNAC may now be set to be low priority, in which case other SNACs will be sent first if a queue is in use. This means that even if we have 120 'get ICQ status note' requests in the queue, a 'send message' SNAC can still be sent nearly immediately (rather than after a 10 minute or so delay). `flap_connection_send_snac_()` calls `flap_connection_send_snac_with_priority` with high priority. Get Info requests (including ICQ Status Note requests) are the only low priority SNACs at this time.

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