On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:30 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > advisory-board mailing list > advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board I think that this puts a barrier between users that need help and those who can help. I think we should just have a couple of trigger happy ops and take no BS. Fedora as is all about the community and i dont think that we should build a barrier between us and potential contributors. -- Justin "threethirty" O'Brien Fedora Ambassador threethirty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Threethirty threethirty on freenode.net @threethirty - twitter/identi.ca/jaiku Phone: (765) 688-0723 _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
