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

Andrey Kurilin andr.kurilin at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 12:21:37 UTC 2018


ср, 1 авг. 2018 г. в 14:11, Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur at redhat.com>:

> 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),


The second link from google search gives an opensource client written in
python https://github.com/raelgc/scudcloud . Also, there is something which
is written in golang.


> complete lack of any console clients (ditto),
>

Again, google gives several ones as first results -
https://github.com/evanyeung/terminal-slack
https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term

serious limits on free (as in beer) tariff plans.
>
>
I can make an assumption that for marketing reasons, Slack Inc can propose
extended Free plan.
But anyway, even with default one the only thing which can limit us is
`10,000 searchable messages` which is bigger than 0 (freenode doesn't store
messages).


Why I like slack? because a lot of people are familar with it (a lot of
companies use it as like some opensource communities, like k8s )

PS: I realize that OpenStack Community will never go away from Freenode and
IRC, but I do not want to stay silent.

>
> >     -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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