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colspan="100"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/spacer.gif" width="473" height="1" border="0"></td></tr> <tr><td>  <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/contenttopic_home.gif" width="62" height="20" border="0" alt=""> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/spacer.gif" width="473" height="30" border="0"></td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><img vspace="4" hspace="10" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/news_icon_important.gif" width="30" height="30" border="0" alt="important"></td> <td><font id="headline"><font size="+1">New US Server: idsoftware.ca.us.quakenet.org</font></font>  <font id="author">by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907/mailto:meeb@quakenet.org">meeb</a></font><br> <font id="datetime">Friday 17. July 2009 at 09:48 BST</font><p> <font id="newstext">Hello QuakeNet! <br/><br/> We're pleased to announce the successful link of a new US based server hosted by Id Software in California. This raises our US capacity even further, and adds a new sponsor. Id Software's server will be maintained by SyncError and TTimo, so please make them feel welcome. <br/><br/> You can try out the new server by /connect'ing to <strong>idsoftware.ca.us.quakenet.org</strong> on the usual ports, and the server will be appearing in the main US server pool shortly.</font> <br> <br> [ <a href="comments.php?sid=0&id=701">14 comments</a> ] </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/spacer.gif" width="473" height="30" border="0"></td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><img vspace="4" hspace="10" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/news_icon_important.gif" width="30" height="30" border="0" alt="important"></td> <td><font id="headline"><font size="+1">Security on QuakeNet</font></font>  <font id="author">by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907/mailto:abdul@quakenet.org">Abdul</a></font><br> <font id="datetime">Tuesday 23. June 2009 at 19:34 BST</font><p> <font id="newstext"><p>Over at Quakenet we thought we should remind you, our users, of a few important things that affect your security when using our network. We take security very seriously, and although we work very hard to ensure our users are as safe as possible, you yourselves can take measures against auth phishers and generally nasty people.</p> <ul> <li><b>Hide your IP Address</b><br/> <p>This is an often overlooked feature - but if you hide your IP address, people will not be able to do anything nasty to you (such as denial of service attacks) unless they get your IP address from somewhere else. Simply use /mode yournickname +x when authed to Q to hide your IP.</p> </li> <li><b>Phishing attacks</b><br/> <p>Unfortunately there are nasty people out there who would love to steal the password to your Q account and probably any channels you own. Of course, Q reminds you every time that you should not give your Q account password to ANYONE, not even Quakenet Staff. Please ignore any messages you get asking you to change your password. Report these to #help immediately and we can deal with them for you. Also, please do not type any strange looking commands, if you do not understand what a command does - do not type it! Ask #help if in doubt.</p> </li> <li><b>Keep your details up to date with Q.</b><br/> <p>If you were to lose or forget your Q password, you can request it to be sent to your registered E-mail address. But, if you have changed this or can no longer get to that email address, we will not be able to recover your Q account for you. So, please keep your email address current on Q - see /msg Q help email on IRC.</p> <li><b>Do not forget about our FAQs!</b><br/> <p>We have spent a lot of time writing our Frequently Asked Questions section to help with the common problems and questions about Quakenet and IRC. Before asking #help, take a look at the FAQs first. This goes double for the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907/http://www.quakenet.org/faq/faq.php?c=160">Security FAQ</a> which contains further details and useful hints and tips to keep yourselves safe and secure on our network.</p> </li> Of course if there are any questions which are not covered by the FAQs, feel free to ask in #help at any time. We would prefer seeing you asking a silly question that keeps you safe, rather than having to retrieve stolen accounts and channels! :)</font> <br> <br> [ <a href="comments.php?sid=0&id=700">5 comments</a> ] </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/spacer.gif" width="473" height="30" border="0"></td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><img vspace="4" hspace="10" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/news_icon_website.gif" width="30" height="30" border="0" alt="website"></td> <td><font id="headline"><font size="+1">New Webchat Client</font></font>  <font id="author">by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907/mailto:meeb@quakenet.org">meeb</a></font><br> <font id="datetime">Sunday 15. February 2009 at 20:24 GMT</font><p> <font id="newstext">We're please to announce that our brand new webchat client is now out of testing and live for public use. The webchat client is the best way to connect to QuakeNet from a web browser, and offers many many excellent features such as full integration with QuakeNet and our "Q" channel service bot.<br/><br/> The new web client is entirely the work of our dedicated development team and you can expect more features soon. The client can also be embedded in your own sites, at no hassle or cost to you, and you can customise its appearance and default settings.<br/><br/> Please give it a play at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907/http://webchat.quakenet.org/">http://webchat.quakenet.org/</a>! You are welcome to comment on the web client in #dev on QuakeNet to provide feedback.</font> <br> <br> [ <a href="comments.php?sid=0&id=699">18 comments</a> ] </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/spacer.gif" width="473" height="30" border="0"></td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><img vspace="4" hspace="10" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/news_icon_network.gif" width="30" height="30" border="0" alt="network"></td> <td><font id="headline"><font size="+1">New US Server!</font></font>  <font id="author">by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907/mailto:meeb@quakenet.org">meeb</a></font><br> <font id="datetime">Friday 09. January 2009 at 09:48 GMT</font><p> <font id="newstext">Hello again! <br/><br/> We're pleased to announce the successful link of a new US based server hosted by Velocity in California, further increasing our US capacity for our state-side users. A new server means new staff, so please also welcome Exstatica as the new cluster admin for Velocity. <br/><br/> You can try out the new server by /connect'ing to <strong>velocity.ca.us.quakenet.org</strong> on the usual ports, and the server will be appearing in the main US server pool shortly.</font> <br> <br> [ <a href="comments.php?sid=0&id=698">13 comments</a> ] </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/spacer.gif" width="473" height="30" border="0"></td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"><img vspace="4" hspace="10" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907im_/http://static.quakenet.org/www/images/news_icon_network.gif" width="30" height="30" border="0" alt="network"></td> <td><font id="headline"><font size="+1">Q upgrade!</font></font>  <font id="author">by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090802220907/mailto:meeb@quakenet.org">meeb</a></font><br> <font id="datetime">Saturday 22. March 2008 at 14:29 GMT</font><p> <font id="newstext">As many of you have noticed we've just upgraded our main channel service, Q, to a new version.<br><br> This is a fairly major upgrade (the new Q has been rewritten from scratch) but it does replicate all the previous features of Q and add some new ones. There may be very minor teething troubles but we hope to have those resolved pretty soon :) All of your old channel, access flags and other settings have been migrated from the old Q so there's nothing to worry about.<br><br> One of the major changes this upgrade brings is that L has been replaced with Q as well. All channels that had L now have been 'upgraded' to Q automatically. L will no longer be on QuakeNet. A list of some of the new features are as follows:<br><br> <strong class="mediumhead">New messages</strong><br> <blockquote> The new Q is a rewrite from scratch, so all the messages the bot uses have been rewritten. This means most responses will be slightly different even when commands are otherwise the same. One general change in this area is that many commands now send confirmation after making a change, e.g. if you use CHANLEV to alter someone's flags it will show what their flags are after the change for confirmation. </blockquote> <strong class="mediumhead">Messaging mode</strong><br> <blockquote> You can now configure Q to either send you NOTICEs or PRIVMSGs. This is done using the new USERFLAGS command:<br> <strong class="answertext">/MSG Q USERFLAGS +n</strong> - sets to NOTICE (default)<br> <strong class="answertext">/MSG Q USERFLAGS -n</strong> - sets to PRIVMSG<br> </blockquote> <strong class="mediumhead">New features</strong> <blockquote> <strong>New flags</strong> Some new flags have been added to users (CHANLEV):<br><br> <strong>+k</strong> KNOWN - This is a new level of access below VOICE (+v). It doesn't entitle you to getting op/voice on the channel, but it identifies you as a known user. This allows you to set personal flags, and use the INVITE command. It is also used in conjunction with the +k chanflag (see below).<br> <strong>+g</strong> GIVE VOICE - Similar to L, this combines with +v to give you autovoice when you join the channel. Note that +av will no longer do this (and in fact is no longer allowed, see below).<br> <strong>+p</strong> PROTECT - This protects your op or voice on the channel (i.e. restores it if it is lost for any reason). It has the same effect as +p CHANFLAG, but on a per-user basis.<br> <strong>+d</strong> DEOP - This is a "punishment" flag that prevents the user ever getting ops.<br> <strong>+q</strong> QUIET - This is a "punishment" flag that prevents the user ever getting voice.<br> </blockquote> <strong class="mediumhead">Personal flags</strong> <blockquote> Personal flags are a new category of chanlev flag. Accessed via CHANLEV as normal, these can only be set and cleared on yourself and cannot be seen from others. Note that you will need at least known (+k) access to set these on a channel. The personal flags are:<br><br> <strong>+w</strong> HIDE WELCOME - you can set this if you get bored of being spammed with the welcome message every time you join the channel<br> <strong>+j</strong> AUTOINVITE - if you set this, Q will invite you to the channel when you AUTH.<br> </blockquote> <strong class="mediumhead">CHANLEV operation changes</strong><br> <blockquote> Q is now strict about not allowing non-sensical combinations of flags. For example, you can't be banned (+b) if you are a master - since masters can just remove +b. You can't have autoop (+a) without op, and you can't have autoop and autovoice at the same time. Also, the new PROTECT (+p) flag includes autoop/voice functionality so you can't have +a/+g set if you are +p.<br> <br> Like L, you can remove any of your own flags (except +b, +d or +q). </blockquote> <strong class="mediumhead">GIVEOWNER</strong><br> <blockquote> A new command GIVEOWNER has been added for the purposes of giving +n to other users. This is no longer possible via a normal CHANLEV command (although CHANLEV still allows for owner removal). The GIVEOWNER command needs to be run twice - the second time using a code provided the first time. This should make accidentally giving away +n a lot harder.<br> </blockquote> <strong class="mediumhead">Channel ban features</strong><br> <blockquote> Q now has a few new functions related to bans, these are:<br> <br> <strong>Ban enforcing</strong><br> You can configure Q to kick banned users off the channel automatically. This is controlled by the +e chanflag.<br> <br> <strong>Ban expiry</strong><br> You can configure Q to auto-remove channel bans after a certain time. This is controlled by the new BANTIMER command.<br> <br> <strong>Temporary bans</strong><br> You can now set "Q bans" with an expiry time, using the new TEMPBAN command. For clarity, the old BAN command has been renamed to PERMBAN (but BAN still works for now).<br> </blockquote> <strong class="mediumhead">Channel mode feature</strong> <blockquote> You can configure Q to enforce, or prohibit, any combination of modes on the channel (including limits and keys). This is done via the new CHANMODE feature - CHANMODE +mode will enforce that mode on the channel, and -mode will prevent it being set. Note that because both + and - modes are allowed, you have to specify the complete list of modes whenever you change it. This replaces the SETINVITE feature of L, and the +k and +l chanflags and associated KEY and LIMIT commands from Q. Auth history feature <br><br> A new feature to track auths to your account has been added. Accessed via the AUTHHISTORY command, it shows you the last 10 logins to your account with the hostmask (and disconnect times). The old AUTHHISTORY command from Q is now called CHANOPHISTORY. </blockquote> <strong class="mediumhead">Channel flags</strong> <blockquote> The list of available channel flags has been overhauled, and the following flag settings are now available:<br> <br> <strong>+a, +g, +p</strong> (AUTOOP, AUTOVOICE, PROTECT) These have exactly the same effect as giving the chanlev flag to every eligible user. So you can turn autoopping on and off for the whole channel in one place - although the chanlev flags can still be used as well (either being set is enough).<br> <strong>+c, +f, +t, +b, +p, +w</strong> (AUTOLIMIT, FORCETOPIC, TOPICSAVE, BITCH, PROTECT, WELCOME) function the same as the old Q<br> <strong>+e</strong> (ENFORCE BANS) - see above<br> <strong>+v</strong> (VOICE ALL) - This chanflag will cause Q to voice everyone who joins the channel, unless they have +q chanlev flag set.<br> <strong>+k</strong> (KNOWN ONLY) - This chanflag will cause Q to kick anyone who isn't known (+k or above) out of the channel. Useful for extra security for private channels. It will ban users if they aren't prevented from rejoining by +i.<br> <br> Note that +k and +l have been removed, replaced by CHANMODE as described above. </blockquote> <strong class="mediumhead">Channel statistics</strong> <blockquote> You can now get some statistics including maximum size and total number of joins on your channel. Statistics are maintained from the time each channel is created, but "resettable" statistics are also kept that can be reset. Use the CHANSTAT command to view these statistics, or reset them. </blockquote> <strong class="mediumhead">Channel user list</strong> <blockquote> It's now possible to get a list of all the users on the channel, who they are authed as and what flags they have on Q. In order to get the list you need to be known on the channel and be on it. Use the USERS command to see the list. </blockquote> And that's it! We hope you like the additional features the new Q provides, and the upgrade of all channels to Q from L. 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