On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:03:35PM +0100, Dave Woodfall wrote: > You don't need SASL to use freenode. It does simplify > identifying/login, but it's not compulsory, unless you want to use > Tor.
It's worth noting that Freenode does mandate SASL for certain IP address ranges known to be problematic for spam/trolls in addition to Tor. It includes a number of cloud computing platforms too. BR, David
