On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Christoph Haas wrote:
We are running the #squid channel on the Freenode IRC network. It's pretty low-traffic but we can help solve a few issues every day. However due to recent changes of the Freenode channel guidelines [1] the #... channels are restricted to official projects. Of course we are doing user support for the Squid proxy software. But due to legal problems many projects have lately been moved to ##... That means we had to move to ##squid unless some "project owner" of Squid registers #squid and appoints operators to run the channel. This guideline is to prevent channel hijacking.
You should speak to Robert Collins (included in cc). He runs the #squiddev channel on freenode and I guess he would not mind acting as the main op and project contact for #squid as well.
Regards Henrik