Expire disconnected connections if they aren't needed or can't reconnect

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@@ -42,9 +42,10 @@ installed to launch irkerd as a boot-time service on that system.
 Under git, a call to irkerhook.py should be installed in the update 
 hook script of your repo.  Under Subversion, the call goes in your
 repo's post-commit script. Under Mercurial there are two different
-ways to install it. See the irkerhook manual page for details.
+ways to install it. See the irkerhook manual page for details; the
+source is irkerhook.xml in this distribution.
 
-Note that if you wee using the CIA service and have ciabot.py in your
+Note that if you were using the CIA service and have ciabot.py in your
 git update script, you can simply replace this
 
 /path/to/ciabot.py ${refname} $(git rev-list ${oldhead}..${newhead} | tac)
@@ -63,6 +64,25 @@ to an irkerd instance.
 Then, start irkerd and call irkerhook.py while watching the freenode
 #commits channel.
 
+The 'irk' script is a little test tool that takes two arguments,
+a channel and a message, and does what you'd expect.
+
 If you need help, there's a project chat channel at 
 
    irc://chat.freenode.net/#irker
+
+== Read-only access ==
+
+If, for whatever reason, you can't modify the hook scripts in your 
+repository, there is still hope.
+
+There's a proxy that takes CIA XML-RPC notifications 
+and passes them to a local irker instance. Find it here:
+
+    https://github.com/nenolod/irker-cia-proxy
+
+There's also a poller daemon that can watch activity in a Subversion
+repository and ship notifications via an irker instance.
+
+    https://github.com/shikadilord/irker-svnpoller
+