Wrt your mikbone, (I browsed the faq / documentation and I didn't find out of the box support), could you support 'proxy' connections through non-standard ports? (Eg, I'm behind a firewall at work, and I couldn't get it to work because of it... though I still want to try it out at some point... If I tried to use port 23 for communication with aol it should work...) Otherwise cool points in your message. I have yet to dig into Tk (or wx) myself because I'm either developing code for the console or writing a web app for what I need to do...
Cheers.
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Zak
undef$/;$mmm="J\nutsu\nutss\nuts\nutst\nuts A\nutsn\nutso\nutst\nutsh\
+nutse\nutsr\nuts P\nutse\nutsr\nutsl\nuts H\nutsa\nutsc\nutsk\nutse\n
+utsr\nuts";open($DOH,"<",\$mmm);$_=$forbbiden=<$DOH>;s/\nuts//g;print
+;
