On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Mark Salerno <msofty@dal.net> wrote:

As a part of today's services upgrade, we have changed the expiration routine for channels:

When a channel expires - the channel's ops first get a chance to register it, if they don't register it within two weeks or if there are no channel ops, the channel is masskicked and closed for a few moments. After a few moments, the channel gets reopened and the first user who joins it will have 5 minutes to register it. If they don't register it within 5 minutes, they get kickbanned and another user can join and try to register it. If they try to play with the modes or kick ChanServ, the channel will be closed for a random time.

It seems like a complicated process, that favors re-registration of the channel rather than non-registration, and disrupting whatever converations might be taking place in a non-registered channel. Why not just let anyone register a channel if there are no ops in it, and it is expiring and not recently /cs dropp'ed? :) First to type "/cs register" is a less disruptive than brute force expulsion and first to /join. Sometimes 'new' channels might have similar issues, no-one's opped because the channel's first joiner didn't know about ChanServ, they left, and now you have a place continuously populated by chatters, but no management of the channel. Sometimes a p'''d off founder /cs drops a very active channel that people are still using, and just leaves, there might or might not be ops in that case. I'm not sure why expiration is so special compared to /cs drop, that extreme lengths should be gone through to make sure the channel gets re-registered by some random person. -- -Mysid