They’re somewhat incomplete but I assume there’s not enough data yet. Also, there are pie charts. Pie charts.

• HelpServ: Redirects to the help for other services. Exceptionally useless, but technically you *can* use it if you want to for some reason.
• HostServ: Manages the custom hostmasks for users. Only I (well, or the other opers, probably) can interact with it but if you have one it’s responsible for applying it. You just won’t see it do that, it does it silently.
• OperServ: Allows us to manage various network-wide options, like session limits and a lot of technical stuff nobody but me cares about.
• StatServ: Supposedly shows you summaries of stats, except it’s nothing that you can’t get from the servers themselves, so it’s not quite exceptionally useless.

Trust me, you’re not missing much.

And this concludes the series on the BoredIRC services. I hope it was informative somehow.

Anyway, should you see ChanServ and friends spontaneously quitting and reappearing that’s just me upgrading.

MemoServ can:

• Send: The most important part, lets you send a memo to someone so they can read it later.
• List: Lists all memos that have been sent to you.
• Read: Reads a memo.
• Save: Prevents a memo from being automatically deleted. Normally, read memos expire (and are deleted by the system) three days after being read.
• Del: Deletes a memo.
• Info: Displays miscellaneous info about your memos, which is basically just how many you have, how many you can have at most, and when you will be told when new ones arrive.
• Ignore: Allows you to ignore users or hostmasks, so that they cannot send you memos.
• Set:
  • Notify: The only set option non-admins have, which changes when you are notified of new memos.

Well that was thrilling. As always, ‘/ms help commands’ for the whole list of commands or ‘/ms help [command]‘ for a specific one, and if your client does not understand server-side aliases (irssi, pidgin) you will need to use the full ‘/msg memoserv’ instead of just ‘/ms’.

Next time, the conclusion: a brief summary of the other (admin-only) services and what they do, for the curious.

• Register (and Drop): Assigns a channel to you. You need the name of the channel, a password, and a description of the channel. The description pretty much only shows up in info requests. Drop unregisters a channel.
• Identify: Identifies you with ChanServ for a channel, which is required for some of the more “secure” commands.
• Info: Displays some basic info about a channel, including the founder, its description, and the last topic.
• VOP, HOP, AOP, SOP: These four assign people to various levels of automatic access. Setting a user’s access to one of these will cause ChanServ to grant them +v, +h, +o, or +a upon entering the channel, assuming they’ve identified. See  So what do all those modes do?
• Status: Tells you what access a given user has on a given channel.
• Access: If, for some reason, the four levels provided aren’t fine-grained enough, this will allow you to place users in-between the ‘main’ access levels. See “levels” below (confused yet?)
• Levels: Controls what level you need to be to execute various commands. For example, by default, you need to be an op (+o) to use the ChanServ invite command, but you need to be protected (+a) to use the clear command.
• AKick: If anyone with a hostmask matching one of the ones entered here enters the channel, they will be kicked and banned. Useful for keeping particularly troublesome people out.
• Voice, Devoice, HalfOp, DeHalfOp, Op, DeOp, Protect, DeProtect: Sets +v, -v, +h, -h, +o, -o, +a, -a respectively on a user. Useful if you have permissions to grant these modes in the channel but due to the current set of modes the IRCd itself won’t let you.
• Invite: Invites yourself into the channel. Primarily used to get around bans, assuming you’re high enough access to use it.
• UnBan: Removes any bans in the channel that affect you.
• Kick: Exactly like the regular kick, only done by ChanServ so it again can work in cases where the IRCd won’t let you.
• Topic: Sets a channel’s topic. Again, same thing about ChanServ having special access.
• Clear: Clears a channel of various things.
  • Bans, Exceptions and Invites remove all active entries of these things.
  • Modes resets the channel to its ‘default’ modes (see Set ModeLock below).
  • Voices, Halfops, and Ops removes +v, +h, and +o, respectively, from all users in the channel.
  • Users kicks everybody out of the channel. Use with care.
• List: Lists all registered channels.
• Set: Manages various ChanServ settings for your channel:
  • Founder: Changes the founder of the channel. Can only be set by the current founder.
  • Password: Changes the founder’s password. Can also only be set by the current founder.
  • Successor: If the founder’s nick expires, is deleted, or otherwise lost, the successor listed here becomes the new founder. Otherwise, the channel also becomes unregistered.
  • Desc: Changes the description entered when the channel was registered for Info requests.
  • URL: Associates a URL with the channel for Info requests.
  • Email: Associates an email… yeah you get the idea.
  • EntryMsg: Displays a message upon entering the channel. It’s sent via notice, not channel message, so the channel is not spammed by these.
  • KeepTopic: If all users leave the channel, when someone re-enters ChanServ resets the topic to the last known one. This is pretty useful.
  • TopicLock: Locks the channel topic so it can only be changed with ChanServ’s Topic command. Any attempt to change it otherwise will lead to it being automatically reverted.
  • MLock: Locks the channel modes to on, off, or neither. You’ll definitely want to look up the syntax on this one. See  So what do all those modes do?
  • Private: Your channel does not appear in a ChanServ List command.
  • Restricted: If enabled, only users on the access list may enter the channel.
  • Secure: Only registered users may have access in the channel.
  • SecureOps: Only registered users may have ops in the channel.
  • LeaveOps: If enabled, if a user enters the channel and it is otherwise empty, they will not have their ops removed (as they would normally gain from the IRCd from entering an empty channel.)
  • OpNotice: When enabled, any time one of the Op, HalfOp, etc, family of commands is used, a notice is sent to the channel.
  • Enforce: If enabled, ChanServ does its best to “keep” users at their access level, automatically restoring lost ops and so on.

That’s all for today! Again, ‘/cs help commands’ for the whole list or ‘/cs help [command]‘ for a specific one, and if your client does not understand server-side aliases (irssi, pidgin) you will need to use the full ‘/msg chanserv’ instead of just ‘/cs’.

Next time, MemoServ!

(No this isn’t an april fool’s thing it actually is offline)

Update: Appears to have suffered severe hardware failure so this could be a while.

Update 2: It dawned on me it’d be a good idea to remove irc.durd.net from the rotator for the time being.

(The only funny April Fool’s prank will ever be the one Toe pulled on me last year <_<)

Also please tell me if it doesn’t work for some reason.