Re: IRC channel spam

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 07:52:15AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  Hi folks, the Magazine IRC channel has been one of many, many
> Freenode
>  channels afflicted recently with spam.  To try and combat this, I set
>  the "-q $~a" mode which means (as I understand from Fedora sysadmins)
>  unregistered nicks may not be able to "speak" in the channel.
>  
>  If you are on the channel and you find you're getting warnings about
>  this, or you're having other trouble, ping me in a private message and
>  I'll see what I can do.
>  
>  On the other hand, it's a VERY good idea to register your nick on
>  Freenode anyway.  This also takes care of the problem.  Here's how you
>  register:  https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration
>  
>  Once you register, you can do either of these to identify yourself to
>  the IRC nickserv any time you get on IRC:
>  
>    /MSG NickServ identify <mypassword>
>    /MSG NickServ identify <nick> <mypassword> 
Article material? :)


Pierre