Hi Neil, We've routinely ended up banning all tor users from many Debian IRC channels due to this sort of abuse. The availability of account cloaks on OFTC now means that we can permit legitimate tor users easily so I'd support these bans becoming standard practice across our channels.
For those playing along at home, I'd also like to echo the suggestions of adding @debian-chanop and @debian-master groups to channel access lists. We have too many channels where there are only two people on the access list neither of whom have been seen in years. When problems such as trolls, spammers or the sorts of crap-flooders we've seen over the last few weeks arise in those channels, it's difficult to deal with that situation and it can become quite unpleasant for the regular inhabitants. I think I can speak for all the members of @debian-chanop in saying that the access such membership provides is a "last resort" for experienced ops to be able to help out in emergencies and that it doesn't change the normal expectations of how the channel would function and who the owners of the channel are. cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint BE65 FD1E F4EA 08F3 23D4 3C6D 9FE8 B8CD 71C5 D1A8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/lesm07$a6m$1...@ger.gmane.org
