IRC cheat sheet

Banning

First, be an op, and then ban somebody for 30min:

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:

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:

Set GTalk details:

Google+ nicks:

irssi

Here’s how I set up irssi on a new system. I usually use rcirc, however.

irssi

rcirc

Actually the list of channels varies. And these days I use rcirc instead of irssi.

rcirc

Nick Recovery

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