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“I am contacting you to make you aware that the 28th of December will be SorceryNet’s 10th year anniversary” network director Daniel Smith said to IRCJunkie. “To mark the special occasion we have decided to hold a logo contest.”

Sorcery is currently ranked as the 37th network on SearchIRC.

More details about the contest can be found here. Participants can sent in their artwork up until the 9th of January, so no hurries!

A global notice on the FreeNode network announced the death of FreeNode admin Lilo. “On the 12th September Rob Levin, known to many as Freenode’s lilo, was hit by a car while riding his bike. He suffered head injuries and passed away in hospital on the 16th”

Lilo was being treated at the Neuro Trauma Intensive Care Unit in Houston, where he died the 16th.

Those who would like to pass on their condolences can do so at condolences@freenode.net.

Sirvulcan passed this tragic news to IRC-Junkie.

“Over the past few days, the dude who runs the ‘irc.efnet.net’ round robin decided that he was tired of running it, and removed all the servers from the list”, Doug announced on EFnet.org.  “It now only sends users to his one IRC server. Some admins were clearly upset, and one even called for the delink of the dude’s server.”

EFnet’s loosely structure allows admins to own a broad range of domains such as efnet.net, efnet.org, efnet.info and efnet.us and give them the freedom to do with the domain how they feel like.

Once the roundrobin was changed, Doug setup a new roundrobin on EFnet.org.

“At approximately 5pm PST today all BellSouth hosts were blocked due to inaction by their abuse department. We are currently working with BellSouth support to resolve this issue. Once BellSouth addresses our abuse complaints with them, we will remove the block on BellSouth hosts”, GameSurge admin Cradly announced on the networks’ website.

Major IRC networks are occasionally forced to GLine an entire ISP due to inactivity after abuse reports. This time however, it was a single user. “… it was an actual user who would persistently evade bans and G-lines” another GameSurge admin, Entrope, explained to IRC-Junkie.

Last Saturday a user who was using the nick ratbert has been creating havoc after he gained the password of Freenode’s admin Robert Levin, aka lilo.

Once gained access he kill’ed and klined staff of the network, delinked servers and send out a global notice and attempted to abuse a mIRC DCC exploit.

-ratbert- I am a fat asshole, who loves abuse, die

-ratbert- DCC SEND YOUAREALLJUDENLOL

Eventually, also network owner lilo was killed by ratbert; * lilo has quit (Killed by ratbert (die ))