From webkit-dev  Tue Jan 19 09:54:09 2010
From: Simon Hausmann <hausmann () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:54:09 +0000
To: webkit-dev
Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] +R mode on #webkit IRC channel
Message-Id: <201001191054.09210.hausmann () kde ! org>
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On Tuesday 19 January 2010 ext Xan Lopez, wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I woke up this morning to find #webkit set up with mode +R
> (http://docs.dal.net/docs/modes.html#2.17), so basically you can't
> speak unless you have your nick registered on freenode. Is this a new
> policy or just some error or temporary measure that someone forgot to
> disable? If it's the latter it would be good to go back to normality.

Yesterday morning someone flooded the channel with CTCP version request (or=
=20
something) that caused everyone to get rejected from the IRC servers due to=
=20
flooding. It was a rather effective DoS where the only way to stay on IRC=20
required leaving #webkit.

I personally don't mind nickserv registration as requirement.

Simon

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