Spam in freenode irc channel

The current freenode spambot attack also hits the ROS channel. Since the spam happens the whole day it would be nice if an op could take care of things there.

I put the channel (#ros) in moderated mode (+m). I gave voice (+v) to people I had seen before and operator status to a few others (+o). I’m not sure what else to do for now. The spammer’s rotate nicknames so fast, I can’t moderate it manually.

https://freenode.net/news/spambot-attack

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Thank you, this is much better. Lets hope that we can unset moderated soon.

Another channel I’m in has set +q $~a which disallows unidentified users to speak - not saying that this is better..

Could someone please update the channel topic? It is currently set to:

Freenode is being spammed, message OP’s for +v (…)

The channel is no longer set to moderated (+m) which is why the topic is confusing. Also the register only (+r) mode might not be needed anymore.

Sorry it took me so long, but I finally remove +r from the channel and updated the topic. Looks like FreeNode has server side spam filtering now.

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