Forums Connection Issues How to avoid throttling?

I'm using an IRC bot to build a peer-to-peer game across an IRC network. This works well because IRC acts as the central server for all players in the game. The problem is, I appear to be getting throttled by the servers once I send more than approximately one message every two seconds. I need to be able to send 2-3 messages per second.

Any suggestions to avoid throttling would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Most servers have either a throttle of 1 msg every 2 seconds after a 10 msg burst, or 2 msg every 1 second after a 5 msg burst, or some other formula very near to those. If you continue to exceed the throttle and allow ~25 messages to stack in your queue, you are typically disconnected from the server.

The only way to exceed this throttle is to request an i:line from a network admin.

The network admin will probably say no, unless you've already well established the popularity of your game with hundreds of players over a handful of years. But who knows right?