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Archive for May 5th, 2012

SASL? Seriously?

Saturday, May 5th, 2012

Apparently Freenode has blocked my ISP for non-SASL connections because some shit-ass has used it for abuse.

Good luck seeing me there. Using a complicated system like SASL for a simple thing like IRC is completely against my principles.


On Sat May 05 14:45:04 2012, celeron55 wrote:
> Do you happen to realize you have blocked a whole Finnish internet
> operator, *.elisa-laajakaista.fi?

We have not blocked access from that network. We are, however, requiring that users authenticate - using SASL - before they may use freenode.

The decision to require SASL was taken in light of repeated and persistent abuse
originating from that network, which had resulted in wide bans being set on the
network in a number of large channels.