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>Is the expectation that someone could squat (as per the new channel description) a channel for all perpetuity, even if they no longer participate on the platfo
by na85 5y ago
>Is the expectation that someone could squat (as per the new channel description) a channel for all perpetuity, even if they no longer participate on the platform?
It's like that on some of the less-modern networks like EFnet. For a long time there were no services to automatically grant channel operator status and so folks would either amass a network of trusted humans large enough to pass the +o flag between each other as timezones awoke and went about their days, and/or they would herd large flocks of bots to perform the same.
- nickthegreek 5y agoEfnet and it’s non registered chaos is what drew me into computers and made me write my first lines of code. I really felt like a part of community having to hold channels. I learned so much about the underlying network protocols that made the internet work and went on to go to a vocation high school for networking. This story was actually confusing to me at first because I never really joined IRC servers that allowed the registrations of usernames let alone channels.