K-Line Policy

Violations

IRC is a great way to talk, have fun, and meet others with similar interests. However, as great as it may be, theres always a few bad apples. The following actions will get a response from the network directed against you.

Harassing/Stalking - Following someone around; talking to them when they have repeatedly said that they didn't wish to be bothered.

Flooding - Sending massive quantities of text to a channel or to a person in private message. This is not only abuse, but it puts an unnecessary load on our servers and services.

Cloning - Having more than two clients up from the same ISP connection. These are many times used maliciously to flood the network or channel (flood-bots), or simply to use all of the server connections so nobody else can join. Households requiring more than two connections should submit a request via #ircops.

Services Abuse - Services abuse includes, but is not limited to:
       • Registering an unreasonable amount of nicknames and/or channels.
       • Flooding services with mass quantities of services requests.
       • Filling someone's memo box with mass quantities of harassing memos.
       • Registering a newbie's nickname just to "ghost" them.

Channel Takeovers - Services has made it almost impossible to take over channels for the long term, but people still try. Newbies give their password to folks who claim to be KDFSnet staffers, and these passwords are used to steal the channel registrations. Note: No KDFSnet staffer will ever approach you out of the blue and ask you for your password for any reason. If anyone ever does this, contact an IRC Operator immediately and let them know.

Impersonating KDFSnet Staff - If you present yourself as an IRC Operator, and you aren't, that is impersonating staff. As a matter of fact, if you present yourself as affiliated with KDFSnet at all and you're not it's "impersonation".

Impersonating Services - Taking a nickname like NickSrev or ChanSenv is impersonating services. If you get a message from anyone with these (or similar) nicknames please report them to an IRC Operator.

Hacking an O:line - This is the attempt to become an IRC Operator on a server on which you don't have an O:line. This can be either a malicious repeated attack, or it can be a badly configured script which opers someone everywhere, not just the server or network they have an O:line on. The first time we see this, you'll generally be warned (unless the /oper commands are coming in rapid succession) and you'll be given the opportunity to stop or fix your script. If it happens again, more stringent measures will be taken.

Responses

In the case of abuse certain actions will be taken. The person who is abusing will usually be spoken to. If speaking does not help the situation, some or more of the following actions may be taken.

Kill - This is a forced disconnection from the network. This is used in the case of flooding to stop the flood, or to get someone's attention.

K:Line - This is a server specific ban placed on a single server. If you are banned from a single server, you need to contact the server admin with regards to how to get the K:line lifted if possible. Note: An individual admin can set a K:line on his/her own server at any time and for any reason or no reason at all. If you fail with negotiating with the individual admin, there is nobody higher to appeal to. The good news is, there are other servers on KDFSnet that will probably be open.

Auto Kill (AKill) - This is a network-wide ban usually lasting a fixed duration. This is caused by repeated, unrepentant abuse. Sometimes the auto kills are set wide enough to catch a lot of innocent people (sometimes whole ISPs). In these cases, we need the help of the ISP in question to discipline the user, or cancel their account so that the abuse will stop. If you are caught in an auto kill, you can send email to kline(at)kdfs.net and explain the situation. Be sure to include whatever message you got from the server when you were banned. We will work with you to try and get the situation resolved.

Services Ignore - When services are abused, one can be put on services ignore. This means that you can't use services. It won't op you, you can't register channels or anything else having to do with services. This is usually for a fixed duration.