[arch-general] IRC Spammer / Impersonator

[Matthew]

Giovanni Scafora wrote:
> 2007/12/27, Branko Vukelic <bg.branko at gmail.com>:
>   
>> I think you can register your nick and also forbid its unauthenticated
>> use via some IRC commands. Read the freenode help pages for that.
>>     
>
> As far as I know, nickserv set kill is disabled on freenode network.
> He can register the nick and he can ghost people who are using the
> nick while he's offline.
> The only way to keep others from using your nickname is by setting up
> a bouncer or another type of persistent connection.
>
>
>   
According to a guy in #freenode he said that kill is disabled.

What would be a bouncer I tried psybnc but that didn't work well only 
accepted my password I set for it half of the time.