Great news for routing staff! You can now view routing information without the need of a .txt file! I know it seems unbelieveable buts its true! Just click the “Routing” link right under the “Staff Area” and you’re done! No more wasting time searching for routing information from people and providers because it’s updated 24/7 by Network Admins. Please send all donations to zsec@mircaddict.net for this cause.
zsec
Network Admin
To better your Atomic-IRC Experience, We have added: Tupac.Atomic-IRC.Net, Fusion.CA.US.Atomic-IRC.Net to the server list.
Also, to reduce network load, we have added Omega.IL.US.Atomic-IRC.net as the Second HUB.
Also note, the Network Staff have been busy reducing LAG and network congestion, and maintaining the spamfilter list to remove those awful ON-JOIN spam messages.
Like always, please join #Atomic-IRC OR #Help for any suggestions, comments, concerns, or problems that may arise. Thanks Again!
- Behalf of the Network Staff
- Amun
Some changes have been made to Atomic-IRC’s services, newly registered nicks now have “nick protection” disabled by default. This means that when a user connects with a nick that is already registered but does not identify for it their nick will not be automatically changed to Atomic-IRC5511425 (or something similar).
Network users felt that this feature was more of an annoyance than anything so that’s why it was removed. Please note that nick protection is now only disabled by default to newly registered nicknames, if you would like your previously registered nick to be exempt from the feature type this once identified:
/msg NickServ set kill OFF
Many thanks for your patients
Rich-Boy
Network Admin
The past week has seen an outbreak of (controlled) spam flooding the network. Controlled simply means that spam messages are being detected before being delivered to other users on the network which means nobody actually notices it unless you are sending these spam messages unwillingly and get banned for doing so.
The message being sent network-wide will look something like the following:
“Free Porn, Adult, Sex, Free Movie « http://www.LINK.tr.cx »”.
The way this message spreads, as most readers will probably guess, is by unsuspecting network users clicking on the link which, when opened, will infect the user’s computer with a virus which begins spreading the same message to all or most users that join each channel and the infected user has no idea they are infected and are helping to spread the virus. The url contained in the message can vary, there appear to be about 10 different links which, in this case, all have the suffix .tr.cx although the url i used in the example was fake.
I’d like to remind all users that the issue is now under control thanks to our network’s Spamfilter but if any more messages may appear remember: do not click the url if you don’t recognise it and report it to an IrcOp asap if you think it looks fishy.
If you think you have been wrongfully banned by the network’s spamfilter please don’t hesitate to email admin@atomic-irc.net and explain your problem as fully as possible.
Props to the excellent job being done by network operators and admins.
And of course Stalker.
Rich-Boy
Network Admin