[Asterisk-Users] IRC

[Michael Sandee]

Well, it does do a damn thing in the long term. So keep it there. People 
who were not clueful enough to figure out the +r by themselves sure 
wouldn't have figured out the topic either... ;)

(Sorry for all the troll/flame, but the tread started with a silly reply 
with a stupid analogy.)

Brian K. West wrote:

>We set +s for more than a day the spam bots kept coming... So +s wasn't
>working.  We did -s so you could atleast see the channel topic telling you
>to register.
>
>I added it back today but that doesn't solve the problem.  And you didn't
>break my bubble you just were not there to see that +s didn't do a damn
>thing.
>
>bkw
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Michael Sandee" <ms at zeelandnet.nl>
>To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 1:16 PM
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] IRC
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>>Sorry to break your bubble...
>>but: No it isn't.
>>
>>These bots come from owned hosts, and get the channel name from the
>>server info which happily lists all non-secret channels.
>>The operators actively battle the bots by k-lining them. (Or well, they
>>are supposed to do this slave job for us atleast, it's the only thing
>>they have to do apart from spying on us).
>>
>>These bots do NOT cache the channel names. They get them after
>>connecting to the server. (Yes I know... we reversed some of them
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>recently)
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>>P.S. Since you are a guy with ops YOU made the mistake by not having the
>>channel +s in the first place.
>>
>>And thanks for making it +s now, lets hope it gets resolved now for the
>>common good.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>Brian K. West wrote:
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>>>Its wayyyyyyyyy toolate for +s
>>>
>>>bkw
>>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>>From: "Michael Sandee" <ms at zeelandnet.nl>
>>>To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>>>Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 12:41 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] IRC
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>>>>Damn dude, you are a worse troll than me... :P
>>>>
>>>>The fact is, freenode is so laggy with, but not restricted to, nickserv
>>>>registrations... that the thing called "perform" in most irc clients is
>>>>messed up, when using it to join some channels. Which can be useful when
>>>>you are not on a very stable or 24/7 connection, such as dial-up or
>>>>hong-kong based broadband connections ;)
>>>>
>>>>Other than that, it sucks to have it this way... but I know it is a
>>>>problem with the spambots. Having the channel +s might be a better way
>>>>to "fight" spambots, without putting a restriction on the users.
>>>>
>>>>Jeremy McNamara wrote:
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>>>>>Steve Underwood wrote:
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>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I figured it out. Most IRC channels requiring some authentication
>>>>>>give a minute's latitude to allow for slow response from nickserv. It
>>>>>>seems #asterisk is not doing that. You really must wait for nickserv
>>>>>>to say you are registered before you issue a /join #asterisk.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>You can't login to an ssh session until you are authenticated, why
>>>>>would IRC be any different?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Jeremy McNamara
>>>>>
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