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Troublemaker Forces GameSurge to GLine ISP

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

“Due to problems with a recurring trouble maker and no response from Sprint’s abuse department, so far, which we have attempted to contact for the past three weeks, we have been forced to block this range from our our network”, the GameSurge website announced.

Cradly from the GameSurge team explained to IRC-Junkie that the gline was eventually set “due to a user who  would use dynamic ip addresses to evade g-lines.  Because we didn’t  receive a response from Sprint to our initial abuse complaints, we decided on the ban.”

The user made it a game to evade the ban, both on IRC and on GameSurge’s forum.

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Tags: GameSurge, IRC
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IRCn Not Quite Dead Yet

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Peace & Protection, aIRC and IRCn, just a few of all around scripts that build up a large userbase and respect in the IRC community over the years, but have stopped development a few years back. From one of them however, I got an email a few days back.

“Just as an FYI, we are not quite ready to officially declare ircN a dead project.  Granted we know the past couple years have been disappointing, but only because we’ve continuously leaned on a single individual to carry on the bulk of the project”, slakker told to IRC-Junkie in a reaction. Slakker and the current developers have been on the IRCn team for years and are planning to get back into action now.

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Tags: IRC, mIRC, Software
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“Oops!” at Undernet

Monday, April 18th, 2005

A little typo in a GLine caused major effects on the Undernet network today.

The result of the typo was that the entire network got GLined with the reason set for the user the GLine was meant for: infected! Advertising infecting web sites. Clean this computer! http://www.moosoft.com http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ )

As a result of the events the entire network fell apart, and servers had to be reconnected one-by-one. On the IRC statistics website NetSplit.de Undernet dissapeared completely from the Top 25 list, where it normally can be found in the top 3.

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Tags: IRC, Undernet
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QuakeNet permanently GLines T-dialin

Friday, April 1st, 2005

“Due to continued abuse, t-dialin will be permanently glined at 22:00 GMT today” we can read today on the QuakeNet website.

We asked Magpie, admin on QuakeNet, what type of abuse forced QuakeNet to Gline this large German ISP. “The majority of the abuse tends to be impersonating services in an attempt to steal users’ Q account passwords, and thus take over their channels. The abuse is not limited to this, however, and also includes mass spamming, spreading of Trojans and so on.”

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Tags: IRC, Quakenet
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IRCSpy Releases AutoXDCC

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

IRCSpy, a website build around a searchengine that indexes downloads being offered on IRC, released AutoXDCC today.

“This new program has been in the works for the last few months by the staff here at IRCSpy. AutoXDCC makes downloading via XDCC using IRCSpy as easy as one click. There is no need to copy and paste troublesome commands into your IRC Client”, author Xanthus announced on the IRCSpy website.

Once you have completed a search on the website, and want to download one of the results, clicking a special icon will add the download in the AutoXDCC program.

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Tags: IRC, Piracy, Software
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