Hi, It's not just #freedos, the whole of Freenode has been under attack (I didn't even realise there was a #freedos on there - I use it to talk to other HPC people):
https://freenode.net/news/spambot-attack Might pop by #freedos on there at some point if other people go there :) Cheers, Owain -- /UCL/ISD/RITS/RC Applications & Support Team Leader/Owain Kenway Twitter: @owainkenway || E-mail: [email protected] Internal: 59834 || External: 02031089834 The Green Zone, 1 St Martin's Le Grand, London, EC1A 4NP ________________________________________ From: Jim Hall <[email protected]> Sent: 02 August 2018 15:52 To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] irc oper required at #freedos 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<http://irc.freenode.net> [..] until the day before yesterday" that the day before yesterday the #freedos channel on irc.freenode.net<http://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]<mailto:[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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
