----- "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "Trigger happy" doesn't sound like a measured approach, although I > definitely sympathize with your feelings toward people messing up our > help channels. :-) We bear at least some responsibility for making > sure people in the help channel aren't tricked or victimized by > attackers. Since we can't guarantee 24-hour coverage by ops, it's a > good idea to try and make people there a little safer as a default. > > Someone already suggested one way to mitigate the problem, which is > to > spit out a more useful message when the user is shunted suddently to > the unregistered channel. A URL pointing to a wiki page with simple > instructions for getting registered should be included. The > admonition "register your nick" is not helpful or adequate. > The cuurent does not just say "register your nick" and the current implementation has bever said only that. The channel topic is: You should register: http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup to be able to join #fedora for support. See http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup after you have registered and receive your confirmation e-mail you will need to /msg NickServ identify <password> and then rejoin #fedora | DO NOT click on spammed links | This is not a support Channel The spews: You have been redirected to this channel (#fedora-unregistered) because you are not registered with freenode. You should register ( see http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup ) and then /join #fedora for support. If you have identified and are still getting sent to this channel your client is misconfigured please see http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#identify. Sorry for the trouble. Chanserv tells the user when they join: [#fedora-unregistered] You have been redirected to the #fedora-unregistered because you are not registered with freenode. See http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup for information on how to do this. I am not sure how much more clear it can be. -- Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robert 'Bob' Jensen || Fedora Unity Founder | | bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx || http://fedoraunity.org/ | | http://bjensen.fedorapeople.org/ | | http://blogs.fedoraunity.org/bobjensen | | http://www.facebook.com/rpjensen | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
