On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:34:27 +0200 Julien Lavergne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le mercredi 08 septembre 2010 à 21:22 +0100, Phill Whiteside a écrit : > > > > I know I've written about this before, but as Lubuntu gains more users > > there will come a day when the IRC channel is a target of such > > attacks. > > > > At present there are 3 people with OP status, we really could do with > > a few more. Having been chatting to Andrew at the ubuntu-youth area, > > he is putting together something for the spam-bots, which I attach. As > > for dealing with > > trolls, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_is_a_troll%3F has a decent > > definition of what they are etc. > > > > We may need another bot, called supybot for the spam bots, I would be > > happy to liase with Andrew on #ubuntu-youth to see how they are > > getting along with it before I'd propose its addition to the #lubuntu > > channel. I'm also chatting to the people on #ubuntu-beginners about > > their methods. > > Do other channels like #ubuntu-beginners have such spam problem ? I > think maybe for now, only a few people with OP rights should be enough. > If we have such problems in the future, we could plan to add a bot for > this. > This used to be a serious problem all over freenode for a while. Some channels required people to use a registered nick to try to stem the problem, which it did. The spambot is useful but, it is also worth letting the freenode staff know about the problems as well. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
