On 08/01/2018 12:45 AM, Ian Wienand wrote:
Hello,
It seems freenode is currently receiving a lot of unsolicited traffic
across all channels. The freenode team are aware [1] and doing their
best.
There are not really a lot of options. We can set "+r" on channels
which means only nickserv registered users can join channels. We have
traditionally avoided this, because it is yet one more barrier to
communication when many are already unfamiliar with IRC access.
However, having channels filled with irrelevant messages is also not
very accessible.
This is temporarily enabled in #openstack-infra for the time being, so
we can co-ordinate without interruption.
Thankfully AFAIK we have not needed an abuse policy on this before;
but I guess we are the point we need some sort of coordinated
response.
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. We have also set an entrymsg on
#openstack-unregistered to:
"Due to a prolonged SPAM attack on freenode, we had to configure
OpenStack channels to require users to be registered. If you are here,
you tried to join a channel without being logged in. Please see
https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration for instructions on
registration with NickServ, and make sure you are logged in."
So anyone attempting to join a channel with +r should get that message.
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