disable join/quit messages due to spambot activity
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	• bzimport
	Aug 18 2008, 11:22 PM

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Author: spacebirdy

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Dear all,
please could the join/quit message be removed from the wikimedia-IRC-Channels.
Lately they are infested by spambots, I did a whois on one and got:
“20 F OoOo”
Google says: http://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9C20+F+OoOo%E2%80%9D&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a to that

They seem well known on other channels/sites:
http://fr.pastebin.ca/1092971 (found via google)

Extract from an IRC channel from today:
http://fr.pastebin.ca/1177916
They join multiple channels at once and only stay for a minute and switch channels.

It would be nice if the join/quits could be suppressed or the odd bots be banned.

Many thanks, best regards,
Elisabeth Anderl

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: irc://irc.wikimedia.org/...

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 10:18 PM

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• bzimport created this task.Aug 18 2008, 11:22 PM

spacebirdy wrote:

Updating the pastebin:
http://fr.pastebin.ca/1178161

Any decent IRC client can be set to "conference mode" (or a mode by a similar name), hiding joins, leaves, quits and nick changes. Some clients even have an option to do that automatically if there are more than a certain number of users in the channel. Suggest WONTFIX.

Elisabeth, please have a look at your IRC client documentation.
You can most certainly hide this messages :) Closing bug.

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