Status of status on freenode
My work environment is what I'd call typical US corporate - IRC nodes are blocked, but I can use a web-based client to access it. A couple of days ago, someone had the poor taste to throw a pack of rabid spam bots into the #haskell channel, forcing the short-term solution of shutting down all web-based users. I noticed today that I can now access #haskell again, but have no voice. I'm wondering: is there any way to modify access to allow registered users to speak? I've tried using other web-based clients, but none of then connect to the freenode server. At home, I can (and do) use mIRC, so I'm not totally cut off - and now I can read, but not communicate back to, the #haskell channel. BTW, please direct me to another list, if this issue does not belong on it. Walt "BMeph" Rorie-Baety "A mountain that eats people? I want one!." - Richard, of LFGComic.com
Walt Rorie-Baety
My work environment is what I'd call typical US corporate - IRC nodes are blocked, but I can use a web-based client to access it.
A couple of days ago, someone had the poor taste to throw a pack of rabid spam bots into the #haskell channel, forcing the short-term solution of shutting down all web-based users. I noticed today that I can now access #haskell again, but have no voice.
I'm wondering: is there any way to modify access to allow registered users to speak? I've tried using other web-based clients, but none of then connect to the freenode server.
At home, I can (and do) use mIRC, so I'm not totally cut off - and now I can read, but not communicate back to, the #haskell channel.
BTW, please direct me to another list, if this issue does not belong on it.
Edward Kmett had the same problem; I think in the end he sold it by buying a hostmask and magically he could speak! -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
Walt Rorie-Baety
My work environment is what I'd call typical US corporate - IRC nodes are blocked, but I can use a web-based client to access it.
I solve these kinds of problems by routing stuff through an SSH connection to an outside server - which isn't blocked, but which could be configured on port 80 if need be. This way, services like IRC need only connect to localhost. You need an external SSH account, though. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
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