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List:       webkit-dev
Subject:    Re: [webkit-dev] +R mode on #webkit IRC channel
From:       Maciej Stachowiak <mjs () apple ! com>
Date:       2010-01-19 10:03:20
Message-ID: A775D79E-399C-47E4-AE80-15E45B8FFB20 () apple ! com
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On Jan 19, 2010, at 1:54 AM, Simon Hausmann wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 January 2010 ext Xan Lopez, wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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 
> something) that caused everyone to get rejected from the IRC servers due to 
> flooding. It was a rather effective DoS where the only way to stay on IRC 
> required leaving #webkit.
> 
> I personally don't mind nickserv registration as requirement.

I took it off for now, but if we continue to have flooding problems like this then we \
may need to restore it and leave it set.

Regards,
Maciej

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