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

András Kövi allprog at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 11:12:49 UTC 2018


These are not just spam messages. At least the ones hitting Mistral are
pedophile content. This must be reported. Can someone help me where?
THX,
A

Andrey Kurilin <andr.kurilin at gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. aug. 1.,
Sze, 12:49):

> Hey Ian and stackers!
>
> ср, 1 авг. 2018 г. в 8:45, Ian Wienand <iwienand at redhat.com>:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> This is temporarily enabled in #openstack-infra for the time being, so
>> we can co-ordinate without interruption.
>>
>> Thankfully AFAIK we have not needed an abuse policy on this before;
>> but I guess we are the point we need some sort of coordinated
>> response.
>>
>> I'd suggest to start, people with an interest in a channel can request
>> +r from an IRC admin in #openstack-infra and we track it at [2]
>>
>> Longer term ... suggestions welcome? :)
>>
>>
> Move to Slack? We can provide auto-sending to emails invitations for
> joining by clicking the button on some page at openstack.org. It will not
> add more berrier for new contributors and, at the same time, this way will
> give some base filtering by emails at least.
>
>
>> -i
>>
>> [1] https://freenode.net/news/spambot-attack
>> [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/freenode-plus-r-08-2018
>>
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>
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> Andrey Kurilin.
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