On Thu, 2 Aug 2018, Jim Hall wrote:
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?
Ah, "gag" mode.
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.
Sounds it.
There's some trolls and/or bots who come onto other network and advertise
their channels (which happen to be on freenode), I've banned a couple of
them over here on Hoshinet.
-uso.
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