[Foundation-l] irc.freenode.net -> chat.freenode.net and patience

Sat Dec 17 11:59:13 UTC 2005

Hi

If you are of the same type than I, you may have had troubles to connect 
to any of freenode channels for the past 15 hours or so.
It seems some irc clients mention the problem, others do not do anything 
except for endlessly looking for the channel and not finding it (that 
was my case).

It seems to be a spambot attack on freenode. You may try the channel 
chat.freenode.net. It works.

Nevertheless, discussions are difficult to keep up with, due to users 
endlessly automatically quitting and joining. Private channels are at 
least working :-)

I only post this here to avoid being confused with a spammer, so please 
have the information circulate as needed :-)

ant