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layout: post
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comments: true
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title: "Leaving IRCnet due to unwanted PMs and no way to filter them"
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category: [english]
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tags: [english, irc]
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---
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*IRCnet is dying network, one of the first ones, and it has no centralized
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management, so nothing new never happens there. Three big examples of
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missing functionality are TLS, Services and IRCv3.*
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I left IRCnet today, because I have gotten enough unwanted PMs (Private
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Messages). Mostly there was nothing bad in them, but I have long history
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with IRC harassment so I get very anxious every time I receive a message
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from sender I don't know or more importantly [have approved].
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* [freenode-harassment] - freenode staff had zero interest to doing
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anything so I released the most troubling content.
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* [ircassholes] - site where you can submit people who...
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[have approved]:{% post_url 2015-04-02-umode+g %}
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[freenode-harassment]:https://github.com/Mikaela/freenode-harassment
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[ircassholes]:http://ircassholes.net/
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The missing features should probably also be opened a little:
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* [TLS (over IRC in this blog)] - Encrypted connection between you and the
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server.
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* Services - NickServ, ChanServ etc. NickServ allows nicks to be registered
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so you can be sure that you talk to the person and not someone who
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stole their nick for imposting and doing bad things as you. ChanServ
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again allows channel registration and having access list so all ops
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can always be opped automatically and voiced people voiced etc.
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* [IRCv3] - Modernizing the IRC protocol with many improvements, such as
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[away-notify] which makes server tell you every time someone on common
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channel goes /away or returns. I mention this, because it decreases
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bandwidth a lot as clients don't have to `/who`-poll to see which people
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are away. Away-notify is also faster.
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* [Caller-ID] which I miss the most and which is why I primarily left
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this times. I am not explaining it again as I have done that twices. [1]
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[2].
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[TLS (over IRC in this blog)]:{% post_url 2015-04-22-IRC-over-TLS %}
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[IRCv3]:http://ircv3.net/
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[Caller-ID]:{% post_url 2015-04-02-umode+g %}
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[1]:{% post_url 2015-04-02-umode+g %}
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[2]:{% post_url 2015-05-10-umode+g2 %}
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