It happened today, 11:13cet, when all of my 21 irc-connections to the Quakenet got G-Lined .. apparently for no-reason.
I'm having a botnet network that spreads messages over many IRC channels that want to receive those. It's like a one-way communication that many can use to send messages to others - great for communities, especially those gaming communities. I'm running those IRC-bots on my own server. So since it's only one server I needed a "trust" from Quakenet to be allowed to run more connections than 5 from one host. I got myself a trust of 30 clients and I need to obey all those rules that one will have to obey if you get a trust. You know... - Don't connect more than you have been allowed - One connection must have its own Ident, not being same with other connections - No abuse... (of course) and all those things you can imagine that's just being nice to Quakenet.
I obey those rules. Now how could that happen then??? What the heck? It must have been an accidently mis-typed G-Line by an IRCoper or not?!
I can call myself happy I know another IRCoper that can give me information on such happenings otherwise I would never have known the REAL REASON for the G-Line of all of my connections to the Quakenet Servers - I still don't get it...
He told me the G-Lines reason: "do NOT use your trust to make unncessary connections (1st Warning - 24 hours gline) (hit 21 users)" What the?!?!?! Ey??? Can't you talk to me? For what reason did I give my emailaddress? Besides 24 hours? Why? And.. by the (funny) way I DON'T HAVE ANY UNNECESSARY CONNECTIONS. And again.. you don't even have a rule that states or warns about "unnecessary connections". What THE?!?!?
Well, thanks for all the fish. I know QuakeNet opers and admins do this in their free-time and noone gets money for any of their services BUT banning my (also FREETIME) community IRC-Services WITHOUT being NOTICED with a reason IS NOT good for ANYONE. Nice culture, eh? Now my message botnet is being down until tomorrow 2005-06-23 11:13cet. Thank you so very much.
This pissed me off. ..So much I needed to write a blog-entry about it.
/Paul
