[ubuntu-us-nc] Freenode IRC Problems

Moss Bliss zaivalananda at gmail.com
Tue Jan 19 02:58:58 GMT 2010 

Um, confused again.  The steps say do this, then do this... but don't say
WHERE to do it.  What site or link or chat or what do I go to and do these
things?

Hugs,
Moss

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Zach Gibbens <infocop411 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Follow steps 1 through 3 on http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup
> then on step 4, pidgin uses a number, not an underscore for an alternate
> nick
> so if you want to use step 4 (a very good idea) instead of with the nick
> foo, the alt nick is gonna be foo1
> then down to step 6 for pidgin, goto accounts, then edit your freenode
> account, in the password area, put your new password
> (step 5 is only for older versions of xchat, never seen one old enough for
> that step yet, step 7 is automated in pidgin as long as the above was done)
>
> also, you need to use your real email address, memoserv sends messages &
> other freenode services use it too.
> also you'll get an email with a string that needs to be copied from that
> email to a freenode window to activate the account
>
>
> (I'll see if I can be a help of other irc clients too, also these steps
> work for finch as well. I thought this might be useful since up till karmic,
> pidgin has been the default client for a fair amount of time)
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Moss Bliss <zaivalananda at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Mark.  You've been a big help.
>>
>> Moss
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:14 PM, markthecarp <markthecarp at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Moss Bliss wrote:
>>> > K, now I'm hopelessly confused.  I just go just got given a new
>>> netbook,
>>> > and was about to setup Pidgin... and now there's another step to the
>>> setup?
>>> >
>>> > Please give us n00bs a step-by-step guide to get into this, or we may
>>> > never...
>>> >
>>>
>>> Well this is exactly what I was worried about. Hopefully link 2 or 3
>>> would be helpful.
>>>
>>> But with Pidgin...
>>> I'll turn it off now. Try to login and I'll try to find out how to
>>> register a nick in Pidgin.
>>>
>>> -mark
>>>
>>> > Hugs,
>>> > Moss
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 6:53 PM, markthecarp <markthecarp at gmail.com
>>> > <mailto:markthecarp at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >     Hi All,
>>> >
>>> >     The Freenode IRC network has been undergoing attacks by spam bots
>>> over
>>> >     the last week or so. The operators of the Freenode IRC network have
>>> >     recommended that channels (rooms) be set to +r or +R mode [1]. I am
>>> >     going to follow the recommendation of these folks mainly to insure
>>> that
>>> >     our team channel won't be used to propagate these attacks.
>>> >
>>> >     I'm going to set the channel mode to +r. [1]
>>> >     <snip>
>>> >     +r (block unidentified)
>>> >     This mode prevents users who are not identified with NickServ from
>>> >     joining the channel. Users will receive a server notice explaining
>>> this
>>> >     if they try to join.
>>> >     </snip>
>>> >
>>> >     What this means in a nutshell is that users will have to have a
>>> >     registered nickname with Freenode [2]. The original team IRC
>>> channel
>>> >     (#ubuntu-northcarolina) required this but I didn't set the new
>>> channel
>>> >     up that way to make things a little easier for new users. The
>>> channel
>>> >     was changed to come into compliance with the standards for approved
>>> >     teams. I will remove the +r on meeting days so that the
>>> >     webchat.freenode.net <http://webchat.freenode.net> link will work
>>> >     w/o requiring a registered nickname.
>>> >
>>> >     I hope this isn't too painful. Please feel free to ask away here or
>>> on
>>> >     the team forum [3] if you need help registering your nickname.
>>> >
>>> >     Cheers,
>>> >     -mark
>>> >
>>> >     [1]http://freenode.net/using_the_network.shtml
>>> >     [2]http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup
>>> >     [3]http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=541297
>>> >
>>> >
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Administrative Editor of Eternal Press - http://eternalpress.ca
Moss' Malas, http://mossmalas.ecrater.com
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