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Re: What's up with the #oclug IRC channel?

On 2018-08-02 13:01, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 2018-08-02 12:44, Scott Murphy wrote:
> > No idea. I have not been on there in a long time. I don???t even know who is an operator. RGB might have some info.
> 
> There was a spambot attacking oftc and freenode.  The attacks stopped without
> our intervention on OFTC, but they are still ongoing on freenode.
> 
> On #audit on freenode, I managed to stop the spam attacks by setting the
> channel to +r (user registeration required).
> 
> MCR did this too on #oclug, but after the attacks stopped, so I think OFTC
> staff mitigated the attack and the +r on #oclug wasn't really necessary.

Actually, no, I'm wrong.  They didn't stop altogether on OFTC, but they did
slow down.  So +r seems to have helped.  Thanks MCR.

> > > On Aug 2, 2018, at 9:38 AM, Dianne Skoll <dianne [ at ] skoll [ dot ] ca> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Has something changed on #oclug?  I was kicked from the
> > > channel and can't rejoin unless registered and verified, and
> > > I don't know how to do that.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Dianne.
> 
> 	slainte mhath, RGB

	slainte mhath, RGB

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