[openstack-dev] [all] Ongoing spam in Freenode IRC channels
Jeremy Stanley
fungi at yuggoth.org
Fri Sep 14 16:35:35 UTC 2018
On 2018-09-11 16:53:05 +0000 (+0000), Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2018-08-01 08:40:51 -0700 (-0700), James E. Blair wrote:
> > Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> writes:
> > > On 08/01/2018 12:45 AM, Ian Wienand wrote:
> > > > 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.
> [...]
> > It turns out this was a very popular option, so we've gone ahead
> > and performed this for all channels registered with accessbot.
> [...]
>
> We rolled this back 5 days ago for all channels and haven't had any
> new reports of in-channel spamming yet. Hopefully this means the
> recent flood is behind us now but definitely let us know (replying
> on this thread or in #openstack-infra on Freenode) if you see any
> signs of resurgence.
And then it was turned back on again a few hours ago after a new
wave of spam cropped up. We'll try to continue to keep an eye on
things.
--
Jeremy Stanley
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