test nathani: thanks to mercutio , [FBI] is now logging again. :) mercutio: thanks for registering that nick and getting the bot back up and running here :) i didn't even consider removing the need to register nicks so much spam these days! now y'all have no excuse to not talk more again :) I removed it a little while ago, but the spam came back, so... It's kinda amazing that our logs to back to 2009 almost 10 years! yeah irc was a selling point when i first came here :) :) Wish we didn't lose like 20 members just by going +r wonder if we go -r, note anyone (legit) new who joins, then ask them to register can we make it so people can join but not talk if not registered maybe It does give you a message but nobody reads them wb [FBI] mercutio: That is an option, their messages would still be delivered to / seen by anyone with +o. It gets really confusing though (as an op) because there's no indication that the person talking cannot be seen by others so to me and [FBI] it looks like a very one-sided conversation. (It works well paired with a "need voice to speak" kind of room.) i see... how can we tell if someone is registered or not? it maybe that we could get [fbi] to check if the user is registered and say specifically to them when they come in (cos no-one reads the topic) Freenode already does that right now. If you try to join a channel as an unregistered user you get a message telling you that you need to register If that doesn't work, a bot isn't going to work either. ah ok true I just did a /whois on you mercutio , and I don't see any indication that you're registered. So, yeah, not sure how to see that... yeah i tried /whois'ing myself too