[tech] IRC abuse

[Davyd Madeley]

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 12:41 +0800, Bruce Murphy wrote:
> Yesterday a g-line was placed on the UWA socks server. It was extremely
> difficult getting it removed because of reported abuse by various
> austnet opers from mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au. Specifically, the opers
> have noticed that people being glined for various abuses while logged in
> from elsewhere immediately turn up on the network again from mussel.

That would explain why the trigger for mussel keeps getting removed. I
had been wondering if it was just Austnet incompetence. Of course, given
the number of people who commonly IRC from mussel and how unlikely they
seem as suspects of an IRC abuse racket, I haven't completely outruled
Austnet incompetence just yet.

> I'm currently organising things to ensure that abuse by UCC members does
> not affect other members of the university, and I'm organising that
> reports of abuse by anyone on campus gets filtered through UCS.
> Naturally we will pass on reports relevant to the UCC. 

Good call.

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