Bot no longer responds to AIM chatroom requests

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run chatbot for AIM
2. Invite chatbot to AIM chatroom
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The chatbot should appear in the chatroom when invited. It does not.
Furthermore, when I cancel the chatroom request, the chatbot gets kicked
off AIM (but does not kill the Python process on the server).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest (v. 1.5.5) on Fedora Core 5.

Please provide any additional information below.
Don't know why it broke, as the bot used to work. The bot worked fine for
at least a week after installing v. 1.5.5 . I did not change anything about
the chatbot or its installation. Maybe an AIM update now prevents it from
working? It works fine if you just message the bot itself, for the record,
so it's specifically a chatroom issue.

Let me know if you need any more info.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by solam...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2009 at 2:20

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Yeah it looks like they changed something on their side, I will see about 
fixing it.

Original comment by cjo...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2009 at 4:35

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Hey, I am having difficulty reproducing this, as it joins chatrooms when I 
invite it.  I'm not sure what's different 
here.  Can you verify that madcow.ini has "autojoin=yes" in the [aim] section?

Also, could you set your loglevel to INFO, try again, and paste the output from 
logs/madcow.log?  Or, just 
whatever spews to the console if you aren't running in the background.

I will leave my bot running for a while, try and invite "madcowbot3" to your 
chatroom and see if it joins so i 
can rule out it being something wrong with the chatroom.

Original comment by cjo...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2009 at 7:13

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Also, perhaps a silly question as I don't know much about AOL chat.. do they 
let channel operators ban 
people?  If so, is there any chance someone banned the bot?

Original comment by cjo...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2009 at 7:16

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My own bot now responds to chatroom requests. Not sure why, as I changed nothing
about the configuration of the bot or the server. Seems to me like maybe the AIM
servers had some problem on their end for a little while but are now fixed, as I
definitely did try restarting and reinviting the bot to many different chatrooms
earlier and it did not work. You can mark this as fixed.

By the way, there aren't any channel operators on AIM as far as I know but feel 
free
to prove me wrong there.

Original comment by solam...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2009 at 7:28

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Weird.  Yeah I don't know, I was just throwing out ideas since it worked for 
me.  Let me know if it happens 
again.

Original comment by cjo...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2009 at 9:59

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