thank you for this post,
guys, if you are overly worried about bans, just use mirror mode. If not, then go ahead and bot, as long as you bot smart, nothing will go wrong. Yes, the standard client is being detected, however I'm still surprised at the 100 hour non-mirror progress report by @Muffins, because that type of proggy is more suited toward mirror mode, but he managed to get it without mirror mode. I just don't want to scare away the non-mirror users :P
so there is still hope for you non-mirror folk ;D
edit: although if you were to ask me personally, I would go for the mirror mode 100 times over.
I've gotten 33-86 ranged botting 24/7 with no breaks (using mirror) on a fresh, botlike character:
and so far so good.