Fix messages on self-initiated channels

README.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Here's where we're at right now:
 - [x] Appear as online in Empathy
 - [x] Disconnect!
 - [ ] Set up an account manually
-- [ ] Contacts handling
+- [~] Contacts handling
 - [x] Text messages
 - [ ] Multimedia messages
 - [ ] Setup messages
@@ -103,12 +103,15 @@ the binary into `/usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-padfoot`.
 
 I should probably put this into the makefile.
 
+### Running
 
-
+D-Bus activation is not enabled yet, since it gets in the way of disaster-driven
+development. Just run the `telepathy-padfoot` binary as the same user that your
+chat client will be running as. It registers to the DBUS **session bus**, and
+will be picked up next time your chat client scans (which may need a restart).
 
 ### Autogenerated telepathy DBUS bindings
 
-
 It makes use of the `dbus-codegen-rust` crate to convert the
 [telepathy interface specs](https://github.com/TelepathyIM/telepathy-spec) into
 the executable code in `src/telepathy`. This is checked in, but can be