this patch for kibot 0.0.12 - http://linux.duke.edu/projects/kibot/
improved reconnect-after-network-feilure enourmous for me

  --md@hudora.de

--- ./kibot/m_irclib.py.orig	Wed Oct 15 13:50:15 2003
+++ ./kibot/m_irclib.py	Wed Oct 15 13:51:10 2003
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@
         try:
             self.socket.connect((self.server, self.port))
         except socket.error, x:
-            raise ServerConnectionError, "Couldn't connect to socket: %s" % x
+            raise irclib.ServerConnectionError, "Couldn't connect to socket: %s" % x
         self.connected = 1
         if self.irclibobj.fn_to_add_socket:
             self.irclibobj.fn_to_add_socket(self.socket)