How do I stop someone flooding or abusing me?
Use the /ignore command on your client. All clients support /ignore *!*user@*.domainname (if you don't know how addresses work read the section on the right of this page).
In BitchX use /ig nick which automatically calculates the address.
In mIRC use /ignore nick 3.

How do I stop someone nuking me?
Visit your Operating system vendor's website, download and install the patches that apply to your system.

What does "nick sets mode: +v" mean? What is VirtualWorld?
VirtualWorld hides your network address from other IRCers, which makes you very difficult to nuke. When you have usermode +v set, VirtualWorld is active. If you set yourself -v you lose this protection. For more information see the VirtualWorld page or the security guide.
Usermode +v is NOT the same as having +v (voice; the little + sign) in a channel. Being voiced in a channel gives you NO protection from nukes.

What do I do if I forget my password?
You need to visit #ASD and ask to have it mailed out to you. It will be mailed to the address you specified when you registered your nickname.

My DCC doesn't work.
The usual reason is that you're using mIRC and you have an incorrect IP address specified.
Go to the Setup menu and open the Local tab.
Change all the options so that the Local Host box has a check mark inside it (the IP Address box will grey out) inside the On connect, always get: box.
Then make sure the Lookup method is set to Server. AustNet's IRC server software sends your own IP address to mIRC so it can configure DCC for you.

Other reasons why DCC may not work include:
You're on a network that's not set up to allow DCC.
You are using a SOCKS Firewall.
You use SLIRP or another PPP/SLIP-over-shell program which doesn't allow DCC.
There's not much you can do about this.

For more help on ChanOP, ask online in #asd or contact [email protected].

An address is always in the form nick!ident@host This information can
be found in a user's WHOIS statement.
(type /whois nickname)

You can use different types of masks to indicate specific parts of a users address. Looking at the following address
[email protected] you can specify different parts by doing the
following.
Using a mask robby!*@* will indicate all users who use the
nick 'robby'
robby!RD@* will indicate all users who use the nick 'robby' and their ident 'RD';
*!RD*@*on.net will indicate all users who use the ident 'RD' and use the isp "on.net";
*!RD@* will indicate all users who use the ident 'RD',
*!*@*.on.net will indicate users who have 'on.net' as their host.

The * symbol is used to match any text in either nick!ident@host.