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Jaruzel on Sept 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: DomIRC – An IRC network for all domain name owners...

I haven't used IRC aggressively in over 15 years. What's with the double hashes I now see on the front of channel names? Is one hash no longer enough?

mirages on Sept 14, 2016 [–]

double hash means non official channel. Single hash means that the channel is administered by "official" staff member.

Example #debian would have operators that are really member of the debian project while ##debian is your old normal IRC channel on first serve basis

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