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Undernet added a new command to its channel service. The command sets wether you allow other people to add you to new channels.

Requested by users and opers, it is especially usefull for those people who keep finding themself added in channels without their knowledge.

To set, use /msg x set noadduser ON, and to unset use /msg x set noadduser OFF

Cradly announced the beta of a new service on GameSurge’s website named ‘Free Custom Title’ service.

A Custom Title is something different then a vHost or entirely ‘faked’ hostmask as Cradly explained to IRC-Junkie in a reaction:

“GameSurge has offered +x host hiding for some time, in the format  .user.gamesurge.   What we call the title is the center word  “user.”  GameSurge is now allowing our users to change their title  based upon a list of options, once every 30 days.”

“The Anope server continues to suffer a heavy DDoS attack, but don’t panic!” Anope’s Angelic announced on the SearchIRC forum.

Anope is a popular set of services in use on many IRC networks.

“Anope was attacked by a user ( KEvin of http://happyirc.ath.cx/ ) after he joined Anope’s support channel on IRC and requested help”, Angelic told IRC-Junkie in a reaction. “Unfortunately all our @’s were afk at the time and he wasn’t happy when no one responded to his question within five minutes.”

In a private message to Angelic he said the DDoS would continue untill he was helped to his satisfaction.

EFNet’s global voting body has voted to switch its Chanfix reopping service to the opensource OpenChanfix.

“EFnet has traditionally been a network of multiple implementations”, OpenChanfix coder Garion explains to IRC-Junkie. ” We are running several compatible ircd versions, and that seems to do well. When it turned out that the maintainers of the current chanfix didn’t have the time to fix bugs and add features, Beige and I decided to write our own chanfix. Apparently the EFnet admins prefer this implementation over the current chanfix, because they voted to use OCF from now on.”

New policies concerning channel ownership is causing some stir amongst channel managers on this network which is primary in use as a base of realtime communication for open source projects. In short, the name in use of the channel must be “contingent on your group’s ownership of that name, legally or informally” as the policy explains. If you have no rights over the channel name, you must begin the channel name with an extra #, for example ##foo instead of #foo.