Outreachy Aspirant!

[Kate Longchi]

Hi Sullivan,

Thanks for the heads up! I am now able to join the IRC chat.

Regards

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 9:08 PM John Sullivan <johns at fsf.org> wrote:

> Hi Kate,
>
> Kate Longchi <papicaty2 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi Bradley,
> >
> > Thank you for getting back to me. I am working on some patches which I
> will
> > be  expecting to make a PR by this weekend. However I am facing some
> > difficulties in joining the IRC chat at #copyleft. I the following
> message
> > everytime I try joining:
> > [image: irc-eror.png]
> > What Must I do to bypass this ?
> >
>
> The message means you need to 1) register your nickname as per the
> instructions in the URL they give you there in the error message 2)
> identify yourself to the server after you log in by doing "/msg nickserv
> identify PASSWORD" without the quotes and replacing PASSWORD with the
> one you use to register your nickname. Then you should be able to join
> the #copyleft channel (I am "johnsu01" there).
>
> (This is an unfortunate hoop to jump through, but in the end it's a good
> idea to have your name registered anyway -- otherwise anyone can connect
> and claim to be you.)
>
> -john
>
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