[PLUG] Spam over IRC channel

[Raju Devidas]

On सोमवार 20 ऑग 2018 03:59 म.नं., rajudev wrote:
>
> On 20 August 2018 12:27:02 GMT+05:30, G Karunakar <karunakar at geekgod.in> wrote:
>> On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:25:10 +0530
>> Dhanesh B. Sabane wrote:
>>
>>> Aloha!
>>>
>>> Over the last couple of weeks, our #pluggies channel on Freenode
>>> IRC has been receiving a lot of spam and we should be enabling
>>> certain modes to prevent it. The `/msg chanserv access #pluggies
>>> list` command tells me that 3 people have access to the channel -
>>> shantanoo, karunakar and freenode-staff. Someone please get in
>>> touch with any of them and ask them to moderate the channel as soon
>>> as possible.
>>>
>>> Also, if they don't have the bandwidth to keep moderating the
>>> channel, I'll be more than happy to volunteer for the task.
>> I think we have moderators and no OP.
>> Is it bots which are spamming? Could this be due to bots joining
>> through matrix.org link? 
>> I have seen couple joining the channel, posting a link and quiting. I
>> assume its not the same nick posting. Maybe difficult to block each
>> nick,or perhaps allow known nicks only. 
>>
> There is no spam from the matrix side. 
> Unlike IRC, spamming from matrix side is very difficult as it requires creating an account on a known server. 
> Also the spam controls for the group can be controlled very easily. 
>
> Some of us have been talking about the goodness of matrix for a while. 
> Just to state , 'matrix users are not causing the spam, nor the matrix bots`
>
> please address the spam on the IRC side. 
No one seems to have addressed the spam issues on the IRC side.
And there is continous spam on the channel.
>
>
>> Karunakar
>>
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