[openstack-dev] [all] Ongoing spam in Freenode IRC channels

Luigi Toscano ltoscano at redhat.com
Wed Aug 1 08:17:14 UTC 2018


On Wednesday, 1 August 2018 07:45:02 CEST Ian Wienand wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It seems freenode is currently receiving a lot of unsolicited traffic
> across all channels.  The freenode team are aware [1] and doing their
> best.
> 
> There are not really a lot of options.  We can set "+r" on channels
> which means only nickserv registered users can join channels.  We have
> traditionally avoided this, because it is yet one more barrier to
> communication when many are already unfamiliar with IRC access.
> However, having channels filled with irrelevant messages is also not
> very accessible.

What about inviting Sigyn, the anti-spam bot of the freenode admins, to all 
channels? Unless it does not trigger some global limit in Sigyn, but people on 
#freenode should be able to help.


Ciao
-- 
Luigi





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