[Ambassadors] registering your nick to get into #fedora

[Larry Cafiero]

Justin --

I find it interesting that you find xchat hard to use and irssi easy,
however I think it's fairly simple to register a nickname in freenode (and,
I'm assuming, in other IRC servers) since the registration process, as far
as I know, works the same whether you're in xchat or irssi.

After connecting to freenode -- /connect irc.freenode.net -- using the
nickname you would like to register, type

/msg nickserv register $YOUR_PASSWORD $YOUR_EMAIL

(where $YOUR_PASSWORD is the password you create and $YOUR_EMAIL is, well,
your e-mail address)

And essentially, that's it.

I think if you go to /msg nickserv help register you can get more
information.

I don't know if this story is going to change any policy or anyone's
> mind on the matter, but I really wish we would change this policy to
> make it easier on new (even brand new) users and on ambassadors.


I think there's a good reason that #fedora requires a registered nick to
enter and since the registration process is not exactly difficult, and I
don't think we should change this policy.

Larry Cafiero
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