Re: [Gimp-developer] #gimp irc invitation only?

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* Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com> [08-23-18 11:18]:
> On 01/15/2018 03:32 PM, Michael Schumacher wrote:
> > On 01/15/2018 09:17 PM, Elle Stone wrote:
> >
> > > [INFO]    This channel is invite-only. You must have an invite from an
> > > existing member of the channel to join. Use "/knock #gimp" to ask the
> > > channel operators to invite you in. [Knock]
> > >
> > > Any ideas what's going on?
> >
> > There was a netsplit, and when reconnecting, one of the servers set the
> > channel mode to +i(nvite only)
> >
> > There is no obvious reason why it should be set this way, so I changed
> > it back.
>
> Hmm, the same thing just happened again:
>
> This channel is invite-only. You must have an invite from an existing member
> of the channel to join. Use "/knock #gimp" to ask the channel operators to
> invite you in.

it was instituted freenode wide to accept *only* registered users due to
spamming.  it requires you "log" in using a password to your *registered*
id.  
  go to #freenode
  make sure your nick is correctly set
  /msg nickserv identify <your-password>
  
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