Added a repeater example demonstrating message throttling.

examples/repeater.rs

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+extern crate irc;
+
+use std::default::Default;
+use irc::client::prelude::*;
+
+fn main() {
+    let config = Config {
+        nickname: Some("repeater".to_owned()),
+        alt_nicks: Some(vec!["blaster".to_owned(), "smg".to_owned()]),
+        server: Some("irc.mozilla.org".to_owned()),
+        use_ssl: Some(true),
+        channels: Some(vec!["#rust-spam".to_owned()]),
+        burst_window_length: Some(4),
+        max_messages_in_burst: Some(4),
+        ..Default::default()
+    };
+
+    let server = IrcServer::from_config(config).unwrap();
+    server.identify().unwrap();
+
+    server.for_each_incoming(|message| {
+        print!("{}", message);
+        match message.command {
+            Command::PRIVMSG(ref target, ref msg) => {
+                if msg.starts_with(server.current_nickname()) {
+                    let tokens: Vec<_> = msg.split(" ").collect();
+                    if tokens.len() > 2 {
+                        let n = tokens[0].len() + tokens[1].len() + 2;
+                        if let Ok(count) = tokens[1].parse::<u8>() {
+                            for _ in 0..count {
+                                server.send_privmsg(
+                                    message.response_target().unwrap_or(target),
+                                    &msg[n..]
+                                ).unwrap();
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            _ => (),
+        }
+    }).unwrap()
+}