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Bonjour only works on Windows2000 or newer, so we don't need to indirectly access the Net* functions. Avoid doing an unnecessary domain query to find the Domain Controller (which was causing a several second delay at startup). Also, try harder to avoid empty default names and falling back to "Purple Person".

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.