FWIW, checkout of these things took 5+hrs, staying on the local
.freebsd.org net w/o hitting the 'net at all.
As promised,
$ time cvs ci
real 67m51.701s
user 0m1.250s
sys 0m5.345s
protocol. It is currently a partial implementation, and has a text
interface only.
As far as I can tell, Mirabilis' software is necessary to register
with the ICQ network, so I could not test its functionality.