Sounds to me like the another person was correct. You're not joining the right server. There's a bunch of IRC servers and if a certain channel requires you to be on (example) the Rizon server, connecting to #tor through Freenode will not work.
>Thursday, December 3, 2015 12:00 PM UTC from >tor-talk-requ...@lists.torproject.org: > >Send tor-talk mailing list submissions to >tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >tor-talk-requ...@lists.torproject.org > >You can reach the person managing the list at >tor-talk-ow...@lists.torproject.org > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of tor-talk digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. #nottor (Andreas Krey) > 2. Re: #nottor (Sebastian Hahn) > 3. Re: #nottor (Andreas Krey) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 08:30:55 +0100 >From: Andreas Krey < a.k...@gmx.de > >To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >Subject: [tor-talk] #nottor >Message-ID: < 20151203073055.gj15...@inner.h.apk.li > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:32:22 +0000, coderman wrote: >... >> the collective defect identification efforts in real-time have moved >> to channel #nottor. > >Speaking of which - what's up with #tor and #nottor. > >I'm using irssi (and am relatively clueless to IRC). > >When I /join #tor without a registered nick, I end up >in ##nottor ('#tor ##nottor Forwarding to another channel'). >I can join #nottor. > >When I try to join #nottor with a registered nick, >I get told 'Cannot join to channel #nottor (You must be invited)' >I can join #tor. > >Boggle? > >Andreas > >-- >"Totally trivial. Famous last words." >From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> >Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800 > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 09:39:06 +0100 >From: Sebastian Hahn < m...@sebastianhahn.net > >To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >Subject: Re: [tor-talk] #nottor >Message-ID: < 28788fdf-a631-44c9-855d-63e3cceac...@sebastianhahn.net > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > >> On 03 Dec 2015, at 08:30, Andreas Krey < a.k...@gmx.de > wrote: >> >> On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:32:22 +0000, coderman wrote: >> ... >>> the collective defect identification efforts in real-time have moved >>> to channel #nottor. >> >> Speaking of which - what's up with #tor and #nottor. >> >> I'm using irssi (and am relatively clueless to IRC). >> >> When I /join #tor without a registered nick, I end up >> in ##nottor ('#tor ##nottor Forwarding to another channel'). >> I can join #nottor. >> >> When I try to join #nottor with a registered nick, >> I get told 'Cannot join to channel #nottor (You must be invited)' >> I can join #tor. >> >> Boggle? >> >> Andreas > >You're on the FreeNode irc network, not OFTC's. > >Cheers >Sebastian > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 12:41:01 +0100 >From: Andreas Krey < a.k...@gmx.de > >To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >Subject: Re: [tor-talk] #nottor >Message-ID: < 20151203114101.gd22...@inner.h.apk.li > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >On Thu, 03 Dec 2015 09:39:06 +0000, Sebastian Hahn wrote: >... >> > When I try to join #nottor with a registered nick, >> > I get told 'Cannot join to channel #nottor (You must be invited)' >> > I can join #tor. >... >> You're on the FreeNode irc network, not OFTC's. > >Boggle indeed (i.e. you're right). > >In that case: Since when is #nottor invite-only, >resp. is that status going away anytime soon? >Troll-repellent? > >Andreas > >-- >"Totally trivial. Famous last words." >From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> >Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800 > > >------------------------------ > >Subject: Digest Footer > >_______________________________________________ >tor-talk mailing list >tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > > >------------------------------ > >End of tor-talk Digest, Vol 59, Issue 4 >*************************************** -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
