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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...
---

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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	2	date: 2011-05-28 17:06:53+00:00
	3	slug: this-is-a-public-service-announcement
	4	title: This is a public service announcement...
d7dd9d5b SB	5	---
	6
	7	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.
	8
	9	If you want to receive wallops, simply run
	10
271fb63d SB	11	`/quote mode $yournick +w`
	12
	13	or
	14
	15	`/umode +w`
	16
	17	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
	18
	19	`/quote mode $yournick -w`
	20
	21	or
	22
	23	`/umode -w`
	24
	25	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.