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To decrease the odds of hitting the rate limit ceiling rapidly on a buddy list with a large number of ICQ buddies, space out our requests for the ICQ Status Note. This has 2 beneficial effects: 1. Request notes over a longer period of time, avoiding hitting the rate limit immediately. 2. Coalesce multiple requests for the same note into a single request. Previously, we were making n*2 to n*4 requests, where n is the number of ICQ contacts with status notes, at signon, as purple_parse_oncoming is called multiple times for each one.

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.