LWN: Comments on "Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0"

Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0

JanC_ — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 23:50:57 +0000

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

flussence — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 19:25:32 +0000

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

SomewhatAmazing — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:20:42 +0000

So, just another Wednesday.

Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0

yahoon — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:08:47 +0000

ok.
it's time to subscribe!

Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0

robertwall — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 20:32:16 +0000

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

Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0

rvfh — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 20:31:01 +0000

Now I know where to get a VPN from...

Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0

halla — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 18:47:00 +0000

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

hggdh2 — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 18:28:13 +0000

#linuxjournal is an invite-only channel...

Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0

NightMonkey — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 18:23:23 +0000

Wow! What an auspicious event to happen in the New Year! :D Where do I subscribe? :D