irc.eversible.com port 9999 also provides SSL Support and was the first EFnet server to introduce SSL connections in early December 2007 via a gateway. We are still accepting SSL connections today. News was posted at http://forum.efnet.org/ssl-test-t2131.html :) As SSL in ircd-ratbox is still beta c...

An admin who initiates a gline request can do so for any reason (this was a vote passed on 06/18/04), and an oper can make a gline request on any user(s) for: spamming, flooding, attempts to exploit security vulnerabilities with efnet servers or clients, drone nets, hacked machines/clients, distribu...

To modify my reply in the direction of this thread's topic: If anyone can also make a suggestion for improving what is already a work-in-progress on EFnet, please by all means, make your suggestion! One suggestion I believe would help improve EFnet: chmode +S would be a great way for users to contro...

From the point of view of a large channel administrator the biggest annoyance is by far the spam bots. Several times a year we get inundated by spammers for anywhere from a few weeks to a couple months. In these cases the biggest boon would be a larger banlist. Often these attacks are from a large ...

What about a system for nicks similair to chanfix? It will record hostnames over a period of time and score them. Should your nick get juped or someone else use it and your score is above a level, then you can recover the nick. This isn't straight out registration, but it does prevent jupenets and ...

valvet wrote: In any case - let's not ruin the purpose of this thread any further.

I'm taking this thread very seriously, and I know there are others as well.

What about webchat? Do you think we could use some improvements on its interface/features? Emoticons? Better channel functions? etc?

Thank you for the compliments.

I must say, during the trial period I witnessed more constructive team work on EFnet. It's fantastic to see users and opers working together.

It's a pleasure and honor to be part of EFnet's Network!

Hello HM2K. This is actually not the first shell offering of its kind -- older regulars probably remember examples such as best.com, and efnet.net's current shell service is conceptually similar. As far as the parent organization goes, it may have religious origins, but most of its initiatives are c...

BeastNH wrote: Ident rsm@*.*

Ident extra@*.*

You can /msg ^duck^` @EFnet regarding the above hostmasks.