On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:08 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 05:58 -0400, Chad Bailey wrote: >> Was getting a basic wiki page going for irc when i realized the >> channel is currently +r. This may be intentional, > > Yes I did that purposely :) > >> but thought I'd >> point it out because it may not be necessary considering the small >> amount of traffic the channel will likely be getting. > > I agree, but it still can't hurt. Identification/registration does not > take long nor is difficult. Its also necessary so you always have the > same name on IRC. Which is good for the group, so your IRC handle is not > always changing, and we know who each other are :) > Understandable, just wanted to make sure. Some people find IRC as a tough learning curve, but people who use linux and are familiar with a cli of any kind shouldn't have any trouble. I've updated the wiki with basic instructions on how to do this.
>> If I'm not mistaken, freenode makes all new channels +r you may need >> to turn off modelock or guard or secure, whatever the heck they >> decided to call it this time. > > No, I set that, they don't have such policy. Some what wish they did ;) Pretty sure they used to, and I recall also having to figure out each time how to manage the weird modes they defaulted new channels with (for instance, I believe for a while they did not have +t defaulted, unsure if that was intentional) >> Here's the basic irc wiki page i created (i know it's not the best >> lol) if anyone is interested. >> >> http://www.jaxlug.org/index.php/IRC > > Thank you very much for doing that, as I had not had a chance to yet. > Now just need to link to that from the home page and maybe gussy it up a > bit :) > Glad to help, I've updated it again to add the registration stuff. It definitely needs "gussied" up haha. Part of why I didn't go ahead and link to it from the main page yet. Speaking of which I did just add a very subtle link from the main page. Feel free to modify this in any way of course, I'm not the best at making things pretty. > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > Obsidian-Studios, Inc. > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
