Links in quit messages... spamming, or no?

Will · none Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 17

I've seen both view points.

I, personally, have a link to both my site and server in my quit message, and don't feel it's spamming.

What do you think? Surprised

U · Eleet Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 521 Location: IRC

If you come on and quit like a normal person (ie, every once in a while) ok, I'd let that slide.

If you come on and off constantly, joining as many channels as you can and do it many times, you're spamming.

But, its up to the determination of the person who sees it. I've seen akills issued before for it on my network, and since I don't really like someone coming onto my network and using resources I and others on my network pay for to spam another network, I don't mind seeing them be akilled either.

So I guess if you wanted my honest opinion, I would say no, I view your quit message as spam. It would probably be less offensive if you just listed the website. But if your quit message is "this network sucks, go to /server irc.blah.com" then you're definetely spamming also.

Depends on the message and how often you do it, and where you do it, I guess.

Jay · none Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 43

I guess it can be marked as spam, like U said, uppon normal behaviour it's just a quit msg Smile

I've never akilled a person for that reason. Everybody is entitled to do what they like with their connection, it is up to the Opers / admins to decide Smile

only when connect / join max channels / deconnect X 50 times, they'll fly Wink

Nneel · none Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 34

yeah .....in normal view it culd be treated as a quit msg......other hand it could be a spam,,,

it depends on situation...& the persom who use it..

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AshleighJane · none Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 40

If you advertise other networks in your quit messages then you are spamming - even your own personal website, that could be viewed as the same, because 9 times out of 10 you have the main network where you are chatting listed on your site - some do - some dont.

Im permanently on 2 nets, but I like to visit other nets too, so my quit message tends to be just a quote.

Of course Guardserv is a pain, I get disconnected. lol

You were killed by GuardServ (FocusIRC.com!GuardServ (Failed oper attempt [1 of 1 attempts] by client.))

Not changing my mIRC settings, so any network with guardserv will disconnect me.

Jane X X

Willaim · Lurker Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 235 Location: IRC

Newer mIRC's have performs per network Wink

Fireman1061 · Newbie Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 59 Location: In Hell

There are ways to prevent Quit msg spamming,
Some IRCd's have setting that are optional, that will allow you to have a static quit msg. Thought most irc network choose not to use them, this option is avalable on some IRCds.

Fireman1061

katsklaw · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1098

actually it's not hard to remove from the source code so that any IRCd could in effect have "static quits".

JohnB · Posted: Sep 29, 2004 11:28am Post subject:

on the SearchIRC IRCd we have disabled quit messages due to the number of people coming in for a quick "spam"

[DiMENSiON] · Eleet Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 621

It all depends on what the link is about and how often it is used. if it's for another network it's spam. It's not hard to stop spam in quit msgs though if you need to.

DeadNotBuried · none Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 43

personally i've set the network i run up so that any spam in quit messages are automatically changed to something else so no one see's the actual spam, but those without spam can still use any quit message they like

Proto · Lurker Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 150 Location: IRC

Since I only know that Unreal has that feature the rest of us are at the disadvantage.

mentor · Posted: Sep 30, 2004 12:03am Post subject:

It's rather easy to make any ircd have "static quit messages." Anyways, back to the orginal question. It greatly depends on the network's policies and the oper who happens to come across it. On one of the networks I oper on they consider: "Excessive use of /quit messages to advertise channels, web sites, IRC servers, scripts, etc." spam, which is usually followed by an autokill.

Personally, I think it's fine if you use it sparingly -- i.e. your a normal user and usually stay connected for a fairly good amount of time. I would define excessive as quitting every few minutes simply to display your URLs .. same for channel part messages.

-m.

magpie · Idler Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 454 Location: Essex, UK

aquanight · Lurker Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 118 Location: Boise, ID

Just tell your client not to link web addresses in quits.

I've even gone so far to client-side block those annoying HydraIRC default quits, and any quit with color in it. Though if I ever saw people spam websites in their quits more often, I'd be one step away from adding *http://* to the list...