<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Sullivan,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the heads up! I am now able to join the IRC chat.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 9:08 PM John Sullivan <<a href="mailto:johns@fsf.org">johns@fsf.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Kate,<br>
<br>
Kate Longchi <<a href="mailto:papicaty2@gmail.com" target="_blank">papicaty2@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
> Hi Bradley,<br>
><br>
> Thank you for getting back to me. I am working on some patches which I will<br>
> beĀ expecting to make a PR by this weekend. However I am facing some<br>
> difficulties in joining the IRC chat at #copyleft. I the following message<br>
> everytime I try joining:<br>
> [image: irc-eror.png]<br>
> What Must I do to bypass this ?<br>
><br>
<br>
The message means you need to 1) register your nickname as per the<br>
instructions in the URL they give you there in the error message 2)<br>
identify yourself to the server after you log in by doing "/msg nickserv<br>
identify PASSWORD" without the quotes and replacing PASSWORD with the<br>
one you use to register your nickname. Then you should be able to join<br>
the #copyleft channel (I am "johnsu01" there).<br>
<br>
(This is an unfortunate hoop to jump through, but in the end it's a good<br>
idea to have your name registered anyway -- otherwise anyone can connect<br>
and claim to be you.)<br>
<br>
-john<br>
<br>
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