On 2018-08-02 13:29, J C Nash wrote:
> Perhaps someone can give instructions to answer Diane's "how to" query?
This is from my 2-decade-old notes...
For general help:
/msg nickserv help
To register:
/msg nickserv register <password> [<email>]
To hide your email address used for recovery:
/msg nickserv set hide email on
To set a recovery email address:
/msg nickserv set email <email>
To "log in"
/msg nickserv identify [<userid>] <password>
> JN
>
> On 2018-08-02 01:03 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > On 2018-08-02 13:01, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> >> On 2018-08-02 12:44, Scott Murphy wrote:
> >>> No idea. I have not been on there in a long time. I don???t even know who
> >>> is an operator. RGB might have some info.
> >>
> >> There was a spambot attacking oftc and freenode. The attacks stopped
> >> without
> >> our intervention on OFTC, but they are still ongoing on freenode.
> >>
> >> On #audit on freenode, I managed to stop the spam attacks by setting the
> >> channel to +r (user registeration required).
> >>
> >> MCR did this too on #oclug, but after the attacks stopped, so I think OFTC
> >> staff mitigated the attack and the +r on #oclug wasn't really necessary.
> >
> > Actually, no, I'm wrong. They didn't stop altogether on OFTC, but they did
> > slow down. So +r seems to have helped. Thanks MCR.
> >
> >>>> On Aug 2, 2018, at 9:38 AM, Dianne Skoll <dia...@skoll.ca> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Has something changed on #oclug? I was kicked from the
> >>>> channel and can't rejoin unless registered and verified, and
> >>>> I don't know how to do that.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>>
> >>>> Dianne.
> >>
> >> slainte mhath, RGB
> >
> > slainte mhath, RGB
slainte mhath, RGB
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