[Cython] #cython on freenode

[Robert Bradshaw]

Thanks for the heads up. I'd be happy to help with this.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018, 12:55 AM Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The Freenode IRC network is currently undergoing a spam attack that is
> affecting the #cython channel there.
>
> People definitely do use #cython to ask questions. I and some others try
> and help them out. It would be a shame to have that community, such as it
> is, get destroyed by the spam attack.
>
> Freenode has a way for a project to take control of the IRC channel
> associated with their name by mailing projects at freenode.net and working
> with an admin to prove who you say you are. For matplotlib they asked Tom
> Caswell to push a branch with a randomly chosen name to github. If someone
> associated with the project is willing to do something like that, I would
> be very happy to volunteer to admin the channel and set the channel
> settings to mitigate the spam attack. I'm currently doing a similar process
> to get admin powers for #ipython and #matplotlib and already have admin
> powers in #scipy and #numpy.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> -Nathan
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