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Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> writes:

> On 08/01/2018 12:45 AM, Ian Wienand wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 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]
>
> To mitigate the pain caused by +r - we have created a channel called
> #openstack-unregistered and have configured the channels with the +r
> flag to forward people to it. We have also set an entrymsg on
> #openstack-unregistered to:
>
> "Due to a prolonged SPAM attack on freenode, we had to configure
> OpenStack channels to require users to be registered. If you are here,
> you tried to join a channel without being logged in. Please see
> https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration for instructions on
> registration with NickServ, and make sure you are logged in."
>
> So anyone attempting to join a channel with +r should get that message.

It turns out this was a very popular option, so we've gone ahead and
performed this for all channels registered with accessbot.  If you're in
a channel that still needs this, please add it to the accessbot channel
list[1] and let us know in #openstack-infra.

Also, if folks would be willing to lurk in #openstack-unregistered to
help anyone who ends up there by surprise and is unfamiliar with how to
register with nickserv, that would be great.

-Jim

[1] https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/project-config/tree/accessbot/channels.yaml