OT: Subsurface IRC-channel swamped by ads

[Dirk Hohndel]

There is nothing in this world that spammers aren't happy to destroy.

But admittedly, I haven't spent time on IRC in ages. It just doesn't fit my normal workflow. And if I scroll back through the history, it's been a long time that there was any meaningful discussion there.

So I don't know what's the right thing to do.

/D

> On Aug 1, 2018, at 11:05 PM, Paul-Erik Törrönen <poltsi at poltsi.fi> wrote:
> 
> There's not much activity on the IRC channel but would it be possible to reconsider the policy of joining.
> 
> The issue is that for the last couple of days the channel has been hosed with 'IRC ad service' spam. This means that I get a false notification of activity, and, because of the volume of spam, it is quite hard to find whether anything about Subsurface has actually been discussed.
> 
> One way to combat this is to use registration (+r mode). Another one could be to drop the channel altogether.
> 
> Poltsi
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