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

Perhaps someone can give instructions to answer Diane's "how to" query?

JN

On 2018-08-02 01:03 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> 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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