Fix autoscroll stopping in message view under high load

Anton and I noticed that the message view stops autoscrolling properly
sometimes when there's a high frequency of arriving messages. This
should fix that problem.
Merge pull request #318 from tstellanova/msg_view_scrolling

Fix autoscroll stopping in message view under high load
Revert "No longer automatically connect UDP on startup. Also removed some dead code"

This reverts commit e003dd7a7c95c3e86704de14189ea2ea094712d7.
Made error message more informative