#fedora and freenode registration

Jon Stanley jonstanley at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 16:16:27 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Paul Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:

>> So, at least for now we have setup #fedora with mode +r, which requires
>> people to be registered with freenode to join the channel. If they are
>> NOT registered, it redirects them to #fedora-unregistered. There we
>> have folks and topic and join message to explain to them how to
>> register and what they need to do to get on the #fedora channel.

FYI, #centos is doing the same thing now - I found out when my client joined channels prior to identifying with nickserv during yesterday's fiasco. It's an ongoing issue with multiple channels on freenode, unfortunately.

Sounds like a perfectly reasonable solution to me.
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