Talk:DALnet

Redirect from DALNet

Hit return prematurely in the summary field, so here's the rest of the rationale:

I've often seen DALnet capitalized this way; redirect might be useful. I believe it would be the "correct" way to CamelCapitalize "DALnet," since the word is "DAL" + "Net", not "DA" + "Lnet."

-- J'raxis 14:46, 2004 Oct 17 (UTC)

The official documentation states that it should be DALnet, not DALNet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.128.112.144 (talk) 02:43, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Ident

why does this channel not mention that dalnet is using the easily fakeable ident service for "security" which does not work for most people that are using modern wifi/dsl routers? this is surely a reason why a whole lot of people left dalnet too... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.61.9.75 (talk) 16:09, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Netsplits

What, no mention about netsplits in this article? --AllyUnion (talk) 13:23, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Notability

I'm not too sure the list of help channels is all that notable. Anyone want to discuss this? --wshs 04:28, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't see a list of help channels on the article, it has possibly already been removed. Steffan (talk) 17:31, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Child Porn

Another big reason for people leaving DALnet was the FBI investigating child porn swapping services, and thus they shut down DCC service. A large userbase of irc is DCC for porn, music, movies, and warez. As such, a large amount of people left to other servers. 24.61.24.177 06:19, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

News sources

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=dalnet+irc&btnG=Search+Archives&hl=en There are plenty of reliable sources out there, including Wired coverage. Plenty of stuff to base an expansion on. MrZaius^talk 16:05, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

neither growing nor shrinking appreciably?

haha. this network steadily shrinks all the time, it has abusive ircops, intrusive bot scanning that routinely kicks people it suspects of having a trojan or malicious script with very little prejudice .. too bad there's few long term studies on the population of this network because it's assuredly dying. 75.92.47.248 (talk) 22:43, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

• Sources? WhisperToMe (talk) 06:07, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Well irc.netsplit.de have a graph that shows a peak in users in 2002 then the massive dip in early 2003 (which IIRC was caused by massive DDOS), then a partial recovery in 2003, then a period of stability then a decline in the last couple of years http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.php?net=DALnet&submenu=years. Plugwash (talk) 18:46, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

My last edit should have brought the article more up to date with the relevant numbers. The steady stable state after their turmoil seems to have ended by 2009, going into a steady decline instead. The related articles mentioning the historic 'big four' and present 'big five' or whatever should also be updated. VoidLurker (talk) 16:00, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Sample image wrong - "Macintosh with irssi"

The image included says it's of a Macintosh running irssi, but to me it seems clear the monitor depicts an Apple II

I believe the image itself is actually depicting an Apple IIc connected to a Mac's terminal on which irssi is being run. While the caption would accurately represent what's doing on, it would be as inaccurate as showing a firefox screenshot of a web page and caption it as "apache server running on a Linux machine".

I believe the original screenshot might come from here or might be a similar set-up to this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/5240888169/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eduo (talk • contribs) 09:40, 13 January 2015 (UTC)