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OT, sort of: I am banned (permanently? [2]) from the #zfsonlinux IRC channel because I connected to it via IRCCloud [1]. It's this kind of attitude that worries

• gsich 8y ago
  They probably don't want another service storing and analysing your messages. The free version is basically useless: "Stay connected for 2 hours while inactive (permanent for first 7 days)" because of this.
  • voltagex_ 8y ago
    Sure, but I can't even reconnect with another client with my normal Freenode account now.
    • mst 8y ago
      Hit up #freenode and see if one of the staff can mediate wih the channel ops for you - "I was banned by account because irccloud but am happy to use another client" seems like a reasonable request to me (I'm freenode staff but currently mostly on hiatus due to lack of tuits)
  • geofft 8y ago
    Not an unreasonable policy in the abstract but open channels for free software projects should be publicly and permanently logged, same as mailing lists. Private channels, sure. Other than that, the project should have public logs, at which point it doesn't matter if a for-profit company wants to see those logs because literally anyone can—or could have just joined in the first place. (Debian also has a policy that you may not publicly log its IRC channels, and I also think it's wrong.)
• p_l 8y ago
  It was a flood prevention system which was triggered by IRCcloud network going broken for a long period of time. It's also used by several other open source channels.