Might pop by #freedos on there at some point if other people go there
:)
I idle in there. I had asked before if anyone on the mailing list was
there but it appeared no one was.
Happy Hacking,
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On 2018-08-02 10:40, Kenway, Owain wrote:
Hi,
It's not just #freedos, the whole of Freenode has been under attack (I
didn't even realise there was a #freedos on there - I use it to talk
to other HPC people):
https://freenode.net/news/spambot-attack
Might pop by #freedos on there at some point if other people go there
:)
Cheers,
Owain
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From: Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org>
Sent: 02 August 2018 15:52
To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers.
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] irc oper required at #freedos
Thanks Steve, very helpful.
Having a little more time to research: looks like +q effectively
bans(?) users from chatting, except for matching users. And the $~a
pattern seems to match registered users?
At least, that's what I get from reading jjasghar's channel operator
quick reference<https://gist.github.com/jjasghar/257263196a8219490252>
and freenode's channel
modes<https://freenode.net/kb/answer/channelmodes> document.
Another note from jjasghar's
page<https://gist.github.com/jjasghar/257263196a8219490252> says "if
you are overwhelmed, you can regain some stability by muting
unregistered users with /mode #reddit-diabetes +q $~a while you ban
the ip addresses that the troll is wielding." So that suggests when
Mdasoh said "we have had an enjoyable time hanging out in
#freedos/irc.freenode.net<http://irc.freenode.net> [..] until the day
before yesterday" that the day before yesterday the #freedos channel
on irc.freenode.net<http://irc.freenode.net> got spammed and/or
trolled? I am not usually on IRC, so I hadn't heard of this.
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:34 AM, Steve Nickolas
<usots...@buric.co<mailto:usots...@buric.co>> wrote:
On Thu, 2 Aug 2018, Jim Hall wrote:
Hi!
So, what happened on IRC the day before yesterday?
I'm afraid you've lost me with the other IRC stuff you mention. I don't
know what "/mode #freedos +q $~a" does. Is that something visitors on
IRC
would do in their clients, or is this an IRC server setting? (Note that
I
don't run the IRC server at freenode.)
It's a channel mode. (I don't know what it does because over on
Hoshinet we use Unrealircd, which does things different from whatever
Freenode's current ircd is.)
Also not sure what "irssi scripts" do. Again, is this something for the
IRC
clients, it something in the server? I looked at the scripts you linked
to
but don't know enough about IRC to know what I'm looking at.
irssi is an IRC client for Linux. I suppose the scripts in question
are to make channel management easier.
(For what it's worth, about 6 years ago I wrote an IRC client for DOS.)
-uso.
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