Hi, Since 19 May 2021 the Freenode network has seen a "hostile takeover" where previous volunteering admins lost access to the network. See also this post by a former staff member, Fuchs: https://fuchsnet.ch/privat/fn-resign-letter.txt
Since 15 June 2021, the original Freenode network has been destroyed completely, see https://isfreenodedeadyet.com/ The Wireshark community has several places to ask questions, including a Q&A site, a mailing list, and IRC channel according to https://www.wireshark.org/faq.html#_where_can_i_get_help There are also unofficial other places on Reddit and Discord. Given the situation with Freenode, I encourage every IRC user to join the #wireshark IRC channel on Libera Chat. Several other open-source communities such as PostgreSQL, Gentoo, and Arch Linux have already moved. See also https://libera.chat/news/welcome-to-libera-chat For those wondering where I was, my IRC client died over a month ago due to a faulty network interface. I have just restored it and am now in process of moving to Libera Chat. Hope to see you there! -- Kind regards, Peter Wu https://lekensteyn.nl On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 08:34:02AM -0500, Jason Cohen wrote: > It is at least associated with the Wireshark project. > > 08:23 -!- Irssi: Starting query in freenode with chanserv > 08:23 <kryojenik> info #wireshark > 08:23 -ChanServ(ChanServ@services.)- Information on #wireshark: > 08:23 -ChanServ(ChanServ@services.)- Founder : Lekensteyn > 08:23 -ChanServ(ChanServ@services.)- Registered : Apr 14 18:14:47 2007 (14y > 9w 1d ago) > 08:23 -ChanServ(ChanServ@services.)- Mode lock : +ntc-s > 08:23 -ChanServ(ChanServ@services.)- The #wireshark namespace is registered > to the wireshark project > 08:23 -ChanServ(ChanServ@services.)- *** End of Info *** > > The channel at this point is getting filled with anti-semetic spam > messages. If anyone on this list is an op in the channel, you may want to > do some cleanup... > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 2:22 PM Jaap Keuter <jaap.keu...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > Hi Jason, > > > > Please be aware that the Freenode IRC channel #wireshark is a resource not > > controlled by the Wireshark organisation. > > > > Thanks, > > Jaap > > > > On 10 Jun 2021, at 18:55, Jason Cohen <kryojen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Curious if there is (or I missed) an announcement about the IRC channel on > > freenode. Obviously there is a lot of activity / drama going on there and > > I've been seeing some rather ugly spam messages in the channel on freenode. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
