enforce upper limit on maximum number of handled commands

reported on #ngircd: pasting lots of lines into a channel can kill off
many people on the channel if the read buffer is drained quickly enough
and the client-side TCP can't keep up with the incoming data.

This implements a throttling scheme:
- an irc client may send up to 3 commands per second before a one second
pause is enforced.
- an irc client may send up to 256 bytes per second before a one second
pause is enforced.

After discussion with Alexander Barton, server <-> server links are
treated specially: There is no artificial limit on the number of bytes
sent per second, and up to 10 commands are processed per second before
a pause is enforced.

It may be neccessary to make those limits tuneable to accomondate larger
networks, but for now they are compile time values.

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