[Ambassadors] registering your nick to get into #fedora

[Ben Williams]

  Yes I do

We tried running the #fedora channel without registration for about a year.

in a nutshell, We had so many spambots that we had to close the channel 
again.



On 09/13/2010 04:38 PM, Larry Cafiero wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:12 PM, threethirty <three at threethirty.us 
> <mailto:three at threethirty.us>> wrote:
>
>
>     <rant>
>     We should be actively taking down barriers to joining this
>     community not
>     erecting them.
>     </rant>
>
>
> And how, exactly, is the painfully simple act of registering an IRC 
> nickname, taking all of a grand total of 30 seconds (if you type 
> slowly) as described in a prior e-mail, a barrier?
>
> Get real, Justin. This is no more a barrier than signing the FAS; in 
> fact, it's probably less of one.
>
> Further, there's a reason that unregistered nicks do not get into 
> #fedora, but I don't know what it is exactly. Does anyone have any 
> background on this?
>
> Larry Cafiero
>
>
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