Maybe more suited for the comms blog? I bet there's a higher percentage
of Fedora community members and contributors using Freenode than there
are Fedora users.
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:50 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon
<pingou(a)pingoured.fr> wrote:
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
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