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Upon connecting to a ExileNET server, your IP will be checked
against DNS blacklists. These list are maintained by different groups to help
stop spam, IRC abuse and more. If you are listed in one of these, you just need to use our login-on-connect
feature with your nickserv account
1. Servers must be approved by the net admin before being compiled, run, or linked
to ExileNET.
2. Server admins must keep their server and conf files up-to-date with current
ExileNET standards. This is especially important during these early stages of
development since we cannot see how well certain modifications we make as a group
will function on the network as a whole until everyone is running the updated
server code.
3. Servers will have non-abusive IRC operators. /kill should only be used in extreme
situations (flood/clone bots, ghosted users, hung clients only when user@*domain
matches.) The main server admins (admins with conf file/machine access) will be
responsible for choosing people they trust and that have a knowledge of the duties
of an irc oper. Abuse of operator privileges by any server operator is grounds
for link removal. /squit should not be used unless a server needs to be re-routed
and the person sending the /squit remote-connects it where it is supposed to go.
At no time should /squit be used if the admins of the /squit server are active
and can do the routing themselves. At all times /squit and /kill should be commented
so all opers know why the action occurred. If you think someone may need to /msg
to ask why you killed a user, think of a better comment. A good rule of thumb
is, when in doubt..don't.
4. /wallops is not to be used as an operator discussion channel, it is meant to
notify opers and interested (+w) users of changing network conditions.
Examples:
/wallops I'm going to reroute server A from server B to server C, any objections?
/wallops eskimo will be going down for an upgrade in 5 minutes, expect a netsplit
and netjoin in a few.
/wallops should not be responded to with /wallops, use /msg to the sending oper
instead. Abuse of /wallops is considered abuse of oper privileges and will be
dealt with accordingly.
5. Links for servers will be judged on the following criteria:
a. server stability. If a server has an uptime of 4 hours before it is brought
down for some reason or another, it probably won't make a good hub.
b. machine/link speed and stability. If your link is saturated, the server won't
do well because it won't have enough bandwidth to keep up with the rest of the
network. Memory is also a concern, a hub server takes up more RAM than a leaf,
and also more network bandwidth. However with protocol P11, this is not
true. Hubs here actually tend to use less bandwidth than leafs.
c. attitude and abuse level of operators on the server. If you are the server
admin, it is your responsibility to see that the operators on your server follow
this policy.
d. server configuration and admin knowledge. Not saying you have to know everything
there is to know about the server config and unix, but a server that is configured
properly and is running the most current version stands a much better chance of
getting an H: line.
6. Servers should not be hacked except by the group working on the protocol updates.
7. IRC operators must be willing to help users to the extent needed to maintain
a trouble-free, good-natured net. This does not mean opers have to hold users'
hands and walk them through everything, but at least point them to a good source
of information.
8. Bots are allowed on ExileNET, but not to the point of being abusive. Any takeover,
clone, flood, or annoybots should be /killed and the user's account K: lined from
the server they were using. We may also want to discuss global K: lines for this
type of user. Non-abusive bots are not to be killed.
9. Warez, moviez etc are not allowed on ExileNET. Please do not ask to bring XDCC
bots that house illegal warez to ExileNET. There are no exceptions to this rule.
ExileNET is a WAREZ free network
10. When a user is K: lined or G: lined, email them and tell them why. At the server
admins' discression, a K: lined or G: lined user can be allowed back on ExileNET.
For clonebots or abusive behavior, cc: mail to root@theuser's domain or provider
and k-lined@exilenet.org.
11. ExileNET's harassment policy - Please see http://www.exilenet.org/docs/netiquette.html#7
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