Hi all, Over the past few weeks, we've seen a number of issues with certain people connecting over TOR, and repeatedly sending various inappropriate comments to a number of IRC channels in the #debian* namespace, including #debian-ctte and #debian-women. Unfortunately, from a OFTC network point of view, there's very little that can be done, short of taking the action of turning off TOR all together. However, I'd like to propose that: Each channel that has the group @debian-ops in it's access list receives a "/mode +b *!*@*.tor-irc.oftc.net". Those who are registered can ask nickserv to provide them with a unique cloak tied to their account, with "/msg nickserv set cloak on". Channels who do not have the @debian-ops in the access list (/msg chanserv access #debian-foo list) would be unaffected. In summary, this would mean that those who connect over TOR, and are not registered with nickserv would be unable to connect to those IRC channels. I believe this allows legitimate tor users to still access our channels, but would restrict the 'drive by' nature of some of the unpleasentness we've seen recently. As this potentially affects a large number of channels, I'd appreciate any constructive feedback from the project before implementing. Thanks, Neil --
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature