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Do not create a conversation yet. A plugin can stop a conversation from being created by intercepting the receiving-*-msg signals. But this code would always open a conversation if a '/buzz' is received as the first message. So we end up with an empty conversation window that we didn't create, and it's confusing as poop! Interestingly, I noticed this because the clang-analyzer cried about it. So yay clang-analyzer!

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.