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author: RichiH
date: 2011-05-28 17:06:53+00:00
slug: this-is-a-public-service-announcement
title: This is a public service announcement...
imported: yes
---
As some of you might remember, freenode used to send wallops when FLOSS projects had major releases and for other news that are, hopefully, of general interest. After some internal deliberation, we decided to retry this experiment. Projects are invited to submit their wallops requests to us and we will try to accommodate everyone. Obviously, we will try to limit this to relevant news and while we are not sure about the exact modus operandi yet, we are confident that we will figure something out that works for everyone.

If you want to receive wallops, simply run

`/quote mode $yournick +w`

or

`/umode +w`

in your IRC client. Please note that you need to do this every time you connect so setting up an auto-command or similar makes sense. In case you want to stop receiving wallops without reconnecting to freenode, simply run

`/quote mode $yournick -w`

or

`/umode -w`

and you are all set. Hopefully, we will manage to come up with interesting news for you. Feedback on this in #freenode or via this post is appreciated.
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	3	date: 2011-05-28 17:06:53+00:00
	4	slug: this-is-a-public-service-announcement
	5	title: This is a public service announcement...
df8e5765	6	imported: yes
849bdd6f	7	---
849bdd6f	8	As some of you might remember, freenode used to send wallops when FLOSS projects had major releases and for other news that are, hopefully, of general interest. After some internal deliberation, we decided to retry this experiment. Projects are invited to submit their wallops requests to us and we will try to accommodate everyone. Obviously, we will try to limit this to relevant news and while we are not sure about the exact modus operandi yet, we are confident that we will figure something out that works for everyone.
34876803	9
849bdd6f	10	If you want to receive wallops, simply run
34876803	11
849bdd6f	12	`/quote mode $yournick +w`
34876803	13
849bdd6f	14	or
34876803	15
849bdd6f	16	`/umode +w`
34876803	17
849bdd6f	18	in your IRC client. Please note that you need to do this every time you connect so setting up an auto-command or similar makes sense. In case you want to stop receiving wallops without reconnecting to freenode, simply run
34876803	19
849bdd6f	20	`/quote mode $yournick -w`
34876803	21
849bdd6f	22	or
34876803	23
849bdd6f	24	`/umode -w`
34876803	25
849bdd6f	26	and you are all set. Hopefully, we will manage to come up with interesting news for you. Feedback on this in #freenode or via this post is appreciated.