AustNet.org http://austnet.org/WordPress AustNet IRC Network Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:53:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Coming soon.. ....Austhex 8 to a server near you ?p=38 Austnet Help Updates Just as a note to those who are interested - ASD Managers have now got an application form up and ready to run. Currently it is not in webform format, that will be changed. For now, interested parties can select ASD Applications and fill it out, and email it to ... ?p=35 Common Ident One of the most comment nickop errors that everyone gets, is ident being too common. This is generally in place because of various trojans/virii/clones/drones/proxies and of course spambots. We have a list below of the common idents that will prevent you from either registering, or identifying to your nicknames. vice me. none - … blah *guess hello iceinviter hehe your_email youruserid Prototype scp58 coolmirc polaris akuma bok_yE enter FrEaK user shoppore proto-8th asdf leopard TURKsz ___ __________ EuroUSER hi services Italy AntiVirus ………. In order to ... ?p=33 Some changes to Services There have been a few changes happening around on the network lately. Some of you may have noticed that ChanOP has changed nicks, to ChanOp - purely cosmetic, but just a hint of what is coming. LoveOp, after nearly 10 yrs has called it quits. She decided to hang up her ... ?p=32 denial of service attacks we have recently suffered Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS) which increases netsplits and degrades performance of the IRC servers -- this in the majority of cases is the reason why you will experience delay, netsplits or loss of connection with our network.  this results from several known users launching attacks against ... ?p=26 user survey we're interested in hearing your thoughts;  please visit http://www.austnet.org/survey and complete the online form to send us your opinions on what we do right, and what we need to work on.  at the end, we'll collate all the results and focus on the main areas that are most important to ... ?p=25 email services we have successfully migrated our entire email service to google hosted mail; this includes all @austnet.org email addresses, as well as mailing lists. users with an @austnet.org mail address now receive a 2Gb AustNet.org gmail account along with POP/SMTP access to seperate your AustNet mail. if you are part of ... ?p=24 #AVA - Virus Help Channel #AVA is one of our unique features of AustNet, AustNet's virus help channel. #AVA was first registered Sat Oct 31 1998 and has been going strong ever since. AVA is a great team of volunteer helpers who are available to assist any IRC/Austnet users that might be infected by trojans/worms and other ... ?p=21 Registering and Identifying Nicknames As AustNet now has mode +R, many channels have set it, so that only registered users who have identified to NickOP can access these channels. We have had many questions from users who do not know how to use services, how to register their nicks, and how to identify to ... ?p=18 Thank you from ASD Hi Everyone :-) Over the last few weeks, ASD have had to deal with many people coming in and needing help with their nick registrations so they could access registered channels. We have been under enormous pressure to assist users, and we are doing our best. ASD would like to thank ... ?p=17