Banning
First, be an op, and then ban somebody for 30min:
/msg chanserv op #emacs
/chanserv akick #emacs ADD <nick> !T 30 drop it /kensanata
Usually *nick* is a pattern that matches the hostname, eg. `*!*@static-108-32-33-25.pitbpa.fios.verizon.net`, which is what you get from `/whois <nick>`.
List all banned patterns:
Unban somebody:
/mode #emacs -b %borg!*@*
Spammers
Set the channel to registered users only:
Idle Time on Freenode
It seems that `/whois nick nick` does this.
Bilbee Details
Set Twitter to chat mode while offline:
account set twitter/mode chat
Set GTalk details:
account set jabber/ssl true
account set jabber/server talk.google.com
account set jabber/port 5223
save
account on
Google+ nicks:
acc gtalk set nick_format %full_name
Here’s how I set up irssi on a new system. I usually use rcirc, however.
irssi
rcirc
/ircnet add -nick kensanata -user alex -realname "Alex Schroeder" -autosendcmd "/^MSG nickserv identify blabla; /wait -freenode 2000; " freenode
/server add -auto -ircnet freenode irc.freenode.net
/channel add -auto #emacs freenode
/channel add -auto #wiki freenode
/channel add -auto #oddmuse freenode
/channel add -auto #rcirc freenode
/channel add -auto #epfarms freenode
/ignore -replies xah
Actually the list of channels varies. And these days I use rcirc instead of irssi.
rcirc
Nick Recovery
/msg nickserv ghost kensanata *secret*
/nick kensanata
#IRC