IrCQNet
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A duplicate of notice to IrCQNet:

Dear ICQ.

I'm contacting one to protest concerning the present state of one's IRC servers (irc. Icq.com). This criticism continues to be induced because of the installation over-kill on protection positioned on your server, that will be not now then actually, compound influencing customers obtaining satisfaction and the total potential from the server.

I've been on IrCQNet for near to 9 years today and also have observed several extreme modifications to some host team that I take advantage of to savor likely to. Several modifications have now been for that toughest and that I can't support but observe that they where applied after AOL introduced ICQ.

Personally, I originate from huge ICT history, with privies careers including operating IT help for 3 big ELIZABETH comers company’s in the united kingdom, operating my very own company which had a sizable part of it centered on my very own IRC host and that I have now been a Worldwide IRC Oper on most of the big IRC networks. It's originating from this skilled stage about them that my remarks are based by me.

Today right down to the issues available.

Firstly I'll protect the present primary cause of IrCQNet’s issues, its IRCd. An IRCd that you simply transformed to, an IRCd is currently run’sed by IrCQNet. Please be aware that none of IRC’s 4 greatest machines, Undernet QuakeNet or EFnet, operate an IRCd. These machines additionally all carry 000 customers, over 70.

Unreal IRCd is broadly regarded as a passion IRCd. It offers a poor picture that ICQ continue maintaining and can't apply a large community IRCd. I will just suppose that your team applied this restricted IRCd because of insufficient expertise coping with methods and IRC associated application.

However, unreal IRCd apart (that could still meet your needs, if it wasn't for that bad administration of the host), the server continues to be put up with settings in position which are chocking it.

The very first style I'd prefer to discuss is T. This is actually the latest style that you simply have applied automagically to all customers joining IrCQNet and also the style that's ultimately caused me to achieve this e-mail, when I appear to get no-where speaking with your reps about the host (more with this later). The style T prevents employing from delivering and getting out all CTCP commands. Please be aware which you just apply this style AFTER your host has delivered every customer that ties it a CTCP type demand.

CTCP is just a helpful device in IRC along with a large area of the IRC information handling methods, many customers utilize it which is popular by several programs and Linux Eggdrop botnets. Preventing this style has avoided customers performing a few of the easiest such things as CTCP PING to check on if there is a buddy lagging on the website link. Anything you occasionally have to know in a Relay Chat scenario.

The following style that's an issue is G. This mode's standard execution is real censorship in your components. G mode prevents your customer from viewing phrases THAT YOU SIMPLY have considered to become “in appropriate”, nevertheless, instead of simply placing it on public stations you established this style, on standard, onto everybody, which influences the things they can easily see in personal one-on-one talks as well as in there own personal forums. Most these phrases are words” which any Englishlanguage silly may let you know is the language utilized by individuals to convey there emotions at that time, straightforward emotive vocabulary. However, you have eliminated the power for individuals to state themselves within the issue they experience most confident with, and therefore are attempting to drive them to gather with the manner in which you experience people must talk, actually the way you experience people must speak to one another in personal, or between good friends. You've eliminated individuals simplest right of independence of talk.

The final style of actual problem is x. IP masking or x, can be used to customers that were protected IP addresses on an IRC server. Today where this is often the best thing sometimes for protection rezones, it will nevertheless program more issues then is handles. For IRC user’s it eliminates there capability to properly reasonable IRC clients and there own forums. X renders for IRC bots ineffective. So you may spot wildcard restrictions on bothering customers in your personal areas you also stop from viewing the tackle. More troubling is whenever you say it the fact that you've impaired customers capability to eliminate this style, deeming while you state they should do. You've eliminated user’s independence to select.

Upon entering IrCQNet my link becomes susceptible to numerous undesirable tests on the quantity of my pc locations. These scan’s is log’sed by our firewall, from your own machines, like a DoS attack. While you try and probe and connect with my pc ports will. Basically am subsequently discovered to become operating or linking via a proxy-server (as many folks utilizing a pc from any big community do), then your ip is barred from your own host and that I am not able to link. This is actually the same for various other port’s you check for, including remote-access administrator resources that are accepted. Therefore my firewall is correct, you're planning to refuse me of support.

In your public IRC forums, you robots are available to be always a bit over zealot. Throwing and excluding for stating words people. Again you're pointing what customers may and certainly will not discuss in a totally free talk environment that is moving.

Your robots aren't truly the issue thaw; probably the most issues are coursed by your live operations. These are individuals who you decide to represent your organization (by there really character to be ready of energy), inside your personal forums.

Your station operations are employed from among themselves, once you passed out a sizable level of host handle to low-uses of AOL/ICQ. It has bakery a tradition of “the and “friends” right type” getting funnel moderators, where it's not frequently bounce these kinds of individuals are cost from “the right type” required for the areas. You began addressing yourselves may sick competent and poorly experienced consumers and have ceased utilizing the correct individual for that work.

The thought of live operations by itself is a great one-but at present it’s easy no longer working. Operations frequently play favourites within the chat areas they choose on newbies who don’t however understand the guidelines of talk and op in, with space regulars and there buddies. This is they also have grown to be good friends with most of the customers and because the route operations also visit these areas for enjoyment, included in there talking interest. This makes it difficult in order for them to do perhaps a moderator or a neutral work, that will be what you’re requesting them to complete.

These live operators will also be never available when required.in a space is inconsistent at-best there gifts. Whenever you do require someone to dear having a difficult person, you then usually discover that they don't possess the interpersonal or specialized abilities to cope with them, they're reluctant to make use of any diploma in keeping sense to avert issues before they occur of advance, they easy can't be troubled or even more generally you notice “there isn't any someone to op people for the reason that space so we are able to do-nothing about it”. It's ostensibly a badly organized setup which displays poorly like a business you.

Today all of this additional “security” you've set up was completed thus, from my comprehension, to safeguard users from “hackers” along with other militias customers, however if something it's had the alternative impact. For instants, rather than anonyms proxy’s' utilization to flooding people about the server invade individuals computers to construct large DDoS systems and “script kiddies” have already been compelled to-go out. This today comes with a much more customers that are influences subsequently before so the issue is not better. But that’s only one instance of the numerous ways host administration that is bad has formulated vulnerable customers computers and protection dangers and private information to some higher level.

Today from transactions together with your reps in your host, I've arrived at anticipate my sights and views, like a person, to become overlooked by yourselves. Consequently it's set me off the usage of an ICQ or AOL item, because of my insufficient religion within the organization paying its customers attention. I'm not the only real person who feel’s in this way, actually this sensation is common consensuses inside the server among your primary user-group, of course if you simply got the full time to research and speak with customers about the host, from an anonym’s login, you'd discover this out for yourselves. Some time to prevent and check might quit you from offending the people who maintain your host heading, by maintain talk being the very first point-of enquiry for brand new customers and moving inside your public areas.

I anticipate your response.

Company: IrCQNet
Country: USA

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