Just a followup here to this thread for input/comment. Freenode has switched over to their new ircd and the spam attacks have been reduced a good deal, but still occur from time to time. The current setup is: People who are not registered with freenode who try and /join #fedora will be redirected to the #fedora-unregistered channel. There they will be given a welcome message explaining that they need to register to join #fedora. The topic of the channel points to registration information. A automated bot sends a message to that channel every 10min with further instructions on how to register. Additionally, there are some of the regular #fedora helpers in channel there to help people get registered. The IRC Support SIG would like to keep this current setup in place. Registering with freenode is a pretty easy requirement, very like to signing up for a mailing list or creating a forum account to receive support from those channels. The main support channel has been a good deal more productive with this change I think, not getting distracted by drive by trolls, spammers and other off topic junk. Does the Board (or any other interested folks) have any problems with us leaving the setup this way? Happy to answer any questions about the setup or alternative methods to keep #fedora productive as a support resource for Fedora. kevin
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