[Jaimbot-users] introductory questions

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I have written an AIM bot in perl ( http://shear.sourceforge.net )...
using a few different perl modules (and my own ugly code) to connect to
the aim servers... I've never been very happy with the results.  Either
the bot sends stuff out way too slow, eats all my processor time, or gets
booted from aim (and has to reconnect) frequently.

Since my bot is set up so that the process(es) that connect to aim don't
have to do a whole lot of processing (there is a database back end), I'm
considering switching to a java based process to connect to aim.

I haven't looked at your api yet, but since you've got an example bot that
works, and you have what looks to be good documentation (i haven't read it
all yet, just skimmed it), it seems likely that your library will work
well for my uses; but I've got a couuple questions before I start diving
in.

Is the connection to the aim server through TOC or OSCAR? (not that it
matters a whole lot, I'm just curious)

Does the library provide automatic rate limiting of outgoing messages? (to
attempt to prevent the server from booting connections for being too
chatty)

Does the library provide for connections to ICQ? (If not, I'll probably be
submitting some patches once I get into it... its actually rather simple
to get it to work)

Thank you,

Richard 'toast' Russo