IRC

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IRC servers

Stack runs an IRC server (ircd-ratbox 2.2) on irc.stack.nl (which is really two servers). The server is connected with the Interlink IRC server. The full list of servers in the Stack-Interlink network is:

• irc.stack.nl (2 servers)
• irc.il.fontys.nl

Clients

The clients we recommend are irssi and xchat. These are installed on Stack's login servers. Here is more information about the irssi configuration and settings. Additional general information about IRC can be found on www.irchelp.org.

IRC services

Stack also offers IRC services, these facilitate (among other things) channel registration, which simplifies channel administration and gives IRC operators more control over what happens. At the moment Stack runs the ratbox services.

The most important services are UserServ and ChanServ. See /msg chanserv help for usage details.

Some very common IRC commands are:

• /msg userserv login username password (to login)
• /msg chanserv invite #channel (to get invited to #channel)
• /msg chanserv op #channel

Usernames and channels may be registered using the register command of the appropriate service. For usernames this is:

• /msg userserv register username password emailaddress

The password can be chosen freely. Remember or store this password somewhere for later.

To register a channel, you must be a channel operator (@) and must be logged on with userserv. In that case you may issue the /msg chanserv register #channel command. One can then add registered channel users, with /msg chanserv adduser #channel username level. The level is 1 for voice, 50 for op or 190 for nearly full control. See code>/msg chanserv help moduser</code> for full details. Autoop/autovoice can be set with /msg chanserv modauto #channel username op (voice). Using /msg chanserv deluser #channel username a user can later be removed from the channel. When everybody has been removed (yourself last) the channel registration will be dropped.

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