Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0 [LWN.net]

Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0

Posted Jan 2, 2018 18:28 UTC (Tue) by hggdh2 (subscriber, #58687)
Parent article: Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0

#linuxjournal is an invite-only channel...

to post comments

Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0

Posted Jan 2, 2018 18:47 UTC (Tue) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link] (3 responses)

I guess that's because freenode right now is going through an attack of really filthy, vicious, sick-making spam.

Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0

Posted Jan 3, 2018 14:20 UTC (Wed) by SomewhatAmazing (guest, #120306) [Link]

So, just another Wednesday.

Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0

Posted Jan 3, 2018 19:25 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (1 responses)

Not just freenode, I've seen some of the recent spambots attack a completely different private server so there must be some blind IP range scanning going on. Setting chanmode +z (require TLS) seems to be a 100% effective mitigation strategy.

Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0

Posted Jan 3, 2018 23:50 UTC (Wed) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

Except it would likely keep out a whole bunch of legitimate users too (especially on less technical channels).

Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0

Posted Jan 2, 2018 20:32 UTC (Tue) by robertwall (guest, #64484) [Link]

One of its chanops set it +i accidentally. It is fixed now :)