IRC patche and a few other things

Hello,

I just stumbled onto eb-lite and wanted to say that I'm very excited
about it.  For a long time I've wanted to make something just like it,
so I'm very happy to finally see something out there.

Attached are two patches, created by "svn diff" from the root of the
trunk branch.

core.patch.gz fixes two silly counting errors that struck me as odd.  It
also makes sure account->blocked is defined in one place, which struck
valgrind's memory checker as odd.

The IRC patch changes a few things in irc.c that bothered or scared me. 
Sending a multi-line message previously was an easy way to anger the IRC
server (lines after the first are interpreted as raw commands to the
server).  I replaced the newlines with spaces, but I believe it's more
common to cause a message with newlines to be sent as multiple
single-line messages.  Unfortunately I can't seem to get my head around
the eb-lite code enough to make that happen.

The way messages are read from the server and parsed seems a bit
awkward.  The patch tries to make sure every line is read and handled to
the end, where before it stopped short in some places, in sometimes
causing annoying errors.  I might see if It's any better off reading in
whole lines before parsing if I get the time.

I attempted to pull the /commands out so that the instant messages and
messages to group chats are handled in a common way.  Hopefully that
doesn't introduce any trouble, and now that I look at it, that may even
have been a TODO item.

Channels can start with & in addition to #, but that's a little picky.

I added a /raw command to send unmodified commands to the server.

I think that's most of it, for whatever it's worth.  I will do whatever
I can to help, or I have a few things of my own I intend to work on for
eb-lite.  I'm 'Unprompted' on AIM and irc.oftc.net.

Happy Holidays,
Cory McWilliams

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