Thanks Steve, very helpful.
Having a little more time to research: looks like *+q* effectively bans(?)
users from chatting, except for matching users. And the *$~a* pattern seems
to match registered users?
At least, that's what I get from reading jjasghar's channel operator quick
reference <https://gist.github.com/jjasghar/257263196a8219490252> and
freenode's
channel modes <https://freenode.net/kb/answer/channelmodes> document.
Another note from jjasghar's page
<https://gist.github.com/jjasghar/257263196a8219490252> says "if you are
overwhelmed, you can regain some stability by muting unregistered users
with /mode #reddit-diabetes +q $~a while you ban the ip addresses that the
troll is wielding." So that suggests when Mdasoh said "we have had an
enjoyable time hanging out in #freedos/irc.freenode.net [..] until the day
before yesterday" that the day before yesterday the #freedos channel on
irc.freenode.net got spammed and/or trolled? I am not usually on IRC, so I
hadn't heard of this.
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:34 AM, Steve Nickolas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2018, Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Hi!
>>
>> So, what happened on IRC the day before yesterday?
>>
>> I'm afraid you've lost me with the other IRC stuff you mention. I don't
>> know what "/mode #freedos +q $~a" does. Is that something visitors on IRC
>> would do in their clients, or is this an IRC server setting? (Note that I
>> don't run the IRC server at freenode.)
>>
>
> It's a channel mode. (I don't know what it does because over on Hoshinet
> we use Unrealircd, which does things different from whatever Freenode's
> current ircd is.)
>
> Also not sure what "irssi scripts" do. Again, is this something for the IRC
>> clients, it something in the server? I looked at the scripts you linked to
>> but don't know enough about IRC to know what I'm looking at.
>>
>
> irssi is an IRC client for Linux. I suppose the scripts in question are
> to make channel management easier.
>
> (For what it's worth, about 6 years ago I wrote an IRC client for DOS.)
>
> -uso.
>
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