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Leet
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Joined: 26 Jun 2008
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 Posted: Oct 21, 2008 2:07am Post subject: DALnet |
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| anyone still use dalnet? |
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EcKstasy
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Joined: 23 May 2008
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| Posted: Oct 21, 2008 11:27am Post subject: |
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| not me anymore, full of ddos bots. |
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katsklaw
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Joined: 28 Jun 2004
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Location: Somewhere you're not.
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| Posted: Oct 22, 2008 4:05pm Post subject: |
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| EcKstasy wrote: | | not me anymore, full of ddos bots. |
That's odd, in the last 14 years on DALnet I've never been attacked. |
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SATAN-HHH
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Joined: 29 Nov 2003
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Oct 23, 2008 4:32pm Post subject: |
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| While it has happened, the encounters that I have experienced with denial of service attacks have quite few and far between instance wise. It also depends alot on what kind of crowd you decide to hang around and associate with. |
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katsklaw
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| Posted: Oct 26, 2008 6:09am Post subject: |
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| SATAN-HHH wrote: | | While it has happened, the encounters that I have experienced with denial of service attacks have quite few and far between instance wise. It also depends alot on what kind of crowd you decide to hang around and associate with. |
That is true and can happen anywhere, not just DALnet or even just on IRC for that matter.
I was flooded a few times while I was an oper on DALnet back in the last 90's but I don't count those because those attacks were a direct response to me akilling someones spam bots. They were also rather rare considering I was only attacked maybe 4 times in 2 years and there were weeks that I akilled as many as 10k bots per week.
Additionally it's been 12 years, not 14 .. appearently I couldn't count the other day .. sorry. |
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webcoder
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Joined: 28 Feb 2008
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Location: Florida
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| Posted: Oct 26, 2008 7:18am Post subject: |
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| I hate to say it, but I miss the old days of dalnet (back in the 90's) I started my IRC experience there in 1997, and I miss the way it used to be... Always chatter going on, and now you go to alot of channels, and no one talks... everyone is just idle.... what a waste :/ |
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darkwarrior
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Joined: 02 Aug 2008
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| Posted: Oct 27, 2008 12:41pm Post subject: |
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| I remember when I started using DALnet around the end of 2001, and I was taken in when I was new by many pakistani's, who gave me op in their channel and helped me get established on DALnet, and taught me a little bit of their language too! I remember one of them wanting me to go to Pakistan and meet him LOL! Those were fun times.. |
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katsklaw
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| Posted: Oct 27, 2008 5:39pm Post subject: |
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| webcoder wrote: | | I hate to say it, but I miss the old days of dalnet (back in the 90's) I started my IRC experience there in 1997, and I miss the way it used to be... Always chatter going on, and now you go to alot of channels, and no one talks... everyone is just idle.... what a waste :/ |
That's mostly everywhere though. DALnet used to have 140k user peak, while it didn't hit that peak often, it's a far cry better than it's 35k-40k peak now. I've often wondered what the "C" in IRC means anymore, it sure the hell isn't "Chat" like it used to be  . |
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webcoder
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| Posted: Oct 27, 2008 5:53pm Post subject: |
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| katsklaw wrote: | | webcoder wrote: | | I hate to say it, but I miss the old days of dalnet (back in the 90's) I started my IRC experience there in 1997, and I miss the way it used to be... Always chatter going on, and now you go to alot of channels, and no one talks... everyone is just idle.... what a waste :/ |
That's mostly everywhere though. DALnet used to have 140k user peak, while it didn't hit that peak often, it's a far cry better than it's 35k-40k peak now. I've often wondered what the "C" in IRC means anymore, it sure the hell isn't "Chat" like it used to be . |
katsklaw...
you sure can say that again...I think dalnet should rename to dulnet... I used to have loads of people on there that I would talk to on a daily basis, and now.. I might speak to them once in blue moon... |
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katsklaw
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To be clear as far as my statements about no chats anymore, it's at IRC in general, not just DALnet.
There are the big 4 nets that have more warez/porn than anything else. Case in point is UnderNet has 4 of their top 5 channels as porn/warez related which none of DALnet's are porn/warez related but still harldy any chatting happening on either net. |
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Anarchy
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Joined: 26 Oct 2007
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Location: Cabot Arkansas
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| Posted: Oct 27, 2008 9:53pm Post subject: |
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| the C in IRC is CRap |
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mentor
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Joined: 22 Jun 2004
Posts: 91
Location: San Diego, CA
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| Posted: Oct 27, 2008 11:44pm Post subject: |
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| katsklaw wrote: | To be clear as far as my statements about no chats anymore, it's at IRC in general, not just DALnet.
There are the big 4 nets that have more warez/porn than anything else. Case in point is UnderNet has 4 of their top 5 channels as porn/warez related which none of DALnet's are porn/warez related but still harldy any chatting happening on either net. |
To be fair, most of DALnet's largest channels were porn/warez related as well back around the time it peaked at 140k "users." That would probably still be the case today had they not stopped allowing file sharing channels.
As for there not being much chatting going on anymore, I think it's where you choose to hang. Networks like freenode, Quakenet, Rizon, GameSurge and numerous smaller networks are quite lively with chatter in various channels. Undernet and DALnet are simply just not the destination anymore for those who want to chat. |
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Anarchy
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Joined: 26 Oct 2007
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Location: Cabot Arkansas
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| Posted: Oct 28, 2008 8:37am Post subject: |
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| more spam bots then anything on mIRC server list thats why i think we need to make a new one which i might start on that project after i get done with this IRCd admin client |
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darkwarrior
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| Posted: Oct 28, 2008 5:56pm Post subject: |
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| It seems IRC is becoming more of a developer playground anymore, now with more development projects utilizing IRC channels for publicity, and all of the mIRC scripts being made, makes it seem to be more of a developer and mIRC scripting playground. Also not to forget Warez and Bot nets as well, so more like a P2P, botnet/script kiddie, and developer playground. |
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PingBad
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Joined: 05 Feb 2005
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Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Oct 28, 2008 6:23pm Post subject: |
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| ironic, and here I am developing an IRC-Services/NNTP hybrid mid/back-end for an idea... |
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