On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 2:03 AM Martin Pitt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > we've had another wave of spambot attachs in #cockpit last night and this > morning. They keep coming every few weeks. Today's one was mild, but the > previous one was quite unbearable (dozens of really offensive lines every > minute). When they happen, there's no defence, as the traditional /kickban > does > not work against botnets with wildly different IP addresses. > > Therefore I propose to do what many other Freenode channels have done > years ago > and restrict #cockpit to registered Freenode users. In technical terms, set > channel mode +M [1]. > > Any objections? Is anyone in the team currently not registered with > Freenode? > >
If you go this route, please add content to the https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/wiki/About page to tell people which hoops they need to jump through in order to be able to access the channel or you're going to be locking out new potential users and contributors.
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