On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 07:52:15AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > Hi folks, the Magazine IRC channel has been one of many, many Freenode > channels afflicted recently with spam. To try and combat this, I set > the "-q $~a" mode which means (as I understand from Fedora sysadmins) > unregistered nicks may not be able to "speak" in the channel. > > If you are on the channel and you find you're getting warnings about > this, or you're having other trouble, ping me in a private message and > I'll see what I can do. > > On the other hand, it's a VERY good idea to register your nick on > Freenode anyway. This also takes care of the problem. Here's how you > register: https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration > > Once you register, you can do either of these to identify yourself to > the IRC nickserv any time you get on IRC: > > /MSG NickServ identify <mypassword> > /MSG NickServ identify <nick> <mypassword> Article material? :) Pierre _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/AQHGB2N5GFP3VXINL5EWZWATPCGUPXZK/