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Aug. 10th, 2005
Freenode #uk FAQ
Aug. 10th, 2005 12:51 pm1. Why did you just /msg me? I don't know you!
I did /who *uk* and then /msg'ed a whole bunch of people with .uk hostnames. I hope my message was polite and didn't cause you too much pain... if you did find it excessively intrustive, please accept my apologies. I shall try not to message people twice, although as I'm doing this by hand, mistakes may happen. Please don't kill me. And if you could resist the urge to tell me to 'fuck off', that would be nice too.
2. Why are you creating #uk ?
I'm trying to register 'the UK' as an official group on Freenode. This will entitle us to certain perks, such as group-related hostmasks (so a /whois will show your address as something like 'denny@uk/denny').
3. What's a hostmask?
It replaces your usual username and originating address with a made-up one. So instead of people seeing your company/university/home network's IP address, they will see the hostmask. This is good for stopping script-kiddies annoying you, although they aren't a huge problem on Freenode at this point. It's also a useful place to store information about the project groups you are involved with on Freenode, and Freenode have plans to use this information to enable certain services (for instance, not enforcing channel join limits on users who are associated with the channel project group).
4. What's a project group?
The Freenode FAQ section about groups starts here: http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#groupregistration
5. What kind of thing gets discussed on #uk ?
It's a social channel. Talk about anything that you want to. If it gets really busy, maybe we'll need some more rules, but I really hope not :)
I did /who *uk* and then /msg'ed a whole bunch of people with .uk hostnames. I hope my message was polite and didn't cause you too much pain... if you did find it excessively intrustive, please accept my apologies. I shall try not to message people twice, although as I'm doing this by hand, mistakes may happen. Please don't kill me. And if you could resist the urge to tell me to 'fuck off', that would be nice too.
2. Why are you creating #uk ?
I'm trying to register 'the UK' as an official group on Freenode. This will entitle us to certain perks, such as group-related hostmasks (so a /whois will show your address as something like 'denny@uk/denny').
3. What's a hostmask?
It replaces your usual username and originating address with a made-up one. So instead of people seeing your company/university/home network's IP address, they will see the hostmask. This is good for stopping script-kiddies annoying you, although they aren't a huge problem on Freenode at this point. It's also a useful place to store information about the project groups you are involved with on Freenode, and Freenode have plans to use this information to enable certain services (for instance, not enforcing channel join limits on users who are associated with the channel project group).
4. What's a project group?
The Freenode FAQ section about groups starts here: http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#groupregistration
5. What kind of thing gets discussed on #uk ?
It's a social channel. Talk about anything that you want to. If it gets really busy, maybe we'll need some more rules, but I really hope not :)
