Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:30 UTC
Dear all, please could the join/quit message be removed from the wikimedia-IRC-Channels. Lately they are infested by spambots, I did a whois on one and got: “20 F OoOo” Google says: http://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9C20+F+OoOo%E2%80%9D&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a to that They seem well known on other channels/sites: http://fr.pastebin.ca/1092971 (found via google) Extract from an IRC channel from today: http://fr.pastebin.ca/1177916 They join multiple channels at once and only stay for a minute and switch channels. It would be nice if the join/quits could be suppressed or the odd bots be banned. Many thanks, best regards, Elisabeth Anderl
Updating the pastebin: http://fr.pastebin.ca/1178161
Any decent IRC client can be set to "conference mode" (or a mode by a similar name), hiding joins, leaves, quits and nick changes. Some clients even have an option to do that automatically if there are more than a certain number of users in the channel. Suggest WONTFIX.
Elisabeth, please have a look at your IRC client documentation. You can most certainly hide this messages :) Closing bug.
