OT: Subsurface IRC-channel swamped by ads

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Mon Aug 6 06:46:18 PDT 2018


> 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.

For now I've gone with mode +r to see if that helps

/D


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