IRC Bot in C#

[Zero One]

Ok, so amongst all of the suggestions I've been given, one that crops up repeatedly is 'pick a project and do it'. So, IRC Bot in C# it is! However, I have encountered a weird problem, which has stumped quite a few people. At the moment, 'ZeroBot' can connect to Esper, but that seems to be all it can do, and there isn't a good reason (that we can find) as to why.

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After this, I get a ping time-out message. For some reason, it appears that I'm not receiving any PING messages. I don't know if this is a problem with Esper or a problem on my end, but it's already confused a few people, so I thought I'd try in here. The source code can be found at: http://pastebin.com/rCqpthzV

[Qactis]

zephyr is the one to talk to man

[snarfblam]

Are you using an IRC library? If so, which one? If not, why?