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On 08/01/2018 12:49 PM, Andrey Kurilin wrote:
> Hey Ian and stackers!
> 
> ср, 1 авг. 2018 г. в 8:45, Ian Wienand <iwienand at redhat.com 
> <mailto: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 <http://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.

A few potential barriers with slack or similar solutions: lack of FOSS desktop 
clients (correct me if I'm wrong), complete lack of any console clients (ditto), 
serious limits on free (as in beer) tariff plans.

> 
>     -i
> 
>     [1] https://freenode.net/news/spambot-attack
>     [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/freenode-plus-r-08-2018
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> Best regards,
> Andrey Kurilin.
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