[Foundation-l] First IRC Group Contacts 'surgery' held this evening, cloak backlog (almost) cleared (yay)

[Waerth]

Yes they control spamming by blocking whole countries out. Many networks 
simply do not allow you on with a Thai IP address. This might also be 
the case for other countries. Also people need to register their nicks 
again. Which might be taken on other networks already. Moving over after 
all of these years is not something to consider lightly.

Waerth

http://fi.ndit.at

> Yes, but setting up IRC channels on many networks that are more accessible
> than Freenode, (and have better policies to control trolling and spamming,)
> is easy and free, and even if we were to set up IRC on our own domain, it
> takes a miniscule amount of bandwidth.
>
> -Dan
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> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Jon <scream at datascreamer.com> wrote:
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>> Joe Szilagyi wrote:
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>>> Is there legitimate reason it would not be more beneficial and easier to
>>> simply set up something like irc.wikimedia.org and host it in-house?
>>>
>>> - Joe
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>> Bandwidth cost money.  Lets allow Freenode PDPC to be gracious enough to
>> donate it.  For that I am thankful.
>>
>> - --
>> Best,
>> Jon
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