The dev team is proud to announce the introduction of a new service to you:

It is called FakehostServ and it allows you to request your own, personal fake host for your account which will automatically be set as soon as you login to your account with C.

Requested fake hosts will be put into a waiting queue (if they don't include bad characters or are invalid at all) and will be approved by the network staff before you can use them.

When requesting your fake host, please follow those rules below:

• Fake hosts always have to be like "domain.tld" at least. No fantasy names like "i.am.cool" or "moo" are allowed. Of course you may request any 3rd level name of your own domain (if you for example own the domain example.com you may request "is.an.example.com" as your fake host).
  
• You must either be the owner of the domain you are requesting a fake host for or you must be allowed by the owner to request a fake host with this domain name. If the domain is not registered you may request a fake host for it, note that if the domain is getting registered and the owner requests a removal of your fake host, we have to remove your host.
• Each fake host may only belong to one account, which means that you can't request "example.com" for two different accounts. It is allowed to have different 3rd level domains though, for example "this.is.an.example.com" for the first account and "this.is.another.example.com" for the second account.
• A fake host request may not violate one or more of our network rules.

If you request fake hosts violating one or more of the above rules they will either just get denied or your account will get suspended from making any future fake host requests temporary or permanently.

Feel free to make your own fake host request today.

You can get further information on this by using
/msg F showcommands


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As we previously mentioned in our last newspost, we have been working on our own ChanServ alot lately.
In our effort to make our own chanserv we have gotten inspiration from various other services and the popular IRC bot eggdrop and added our own ideas ontop of that.

Since ChanServ2 is written from scratch it should be faster and better than the old C in every single way.

Some changes on ChanServ2:
    
    * C2 is now absolutely restrictive and does not have any holes within its overhauled channel protection system anymore, which means it will always force what you've set up in any possible case.
      Nobody will ever be able to remove/set any mode you are enforcing/denying or to op/deop/voice/devoice someone who should be deopped/opped/devoiced/voiced.
      It also will always enforce bans or bitch/protect modes in any case.
    * C2 differs between "registered bans" and "channel bans".
      Registered bans are bans registered to the bot directly, the bot will always enforce them, which means that C2 will re-set the ban on the channel if it got removed and all matching users will be kicked automatically.
      A channel ban is just a normal ban someone has set with the /mode command, different to the old C's behaviour C2 will only take action if you have the +e CHANSET flag set (more on this flag below).
    * There are 3 different flag sets for the different purposes.
      UFLAGS: access/status flags concerning your account.
      CHANSET: channel setting flags, formerly known as chanflags (for legacy reasons you still may use the CHANFLAGS command).
      CHANLEV: channel access flags, defining access for an account on a channel.
    * Durations always have the following prefixes:
          o s for seconds
          o m for minutes
          o h for hours
          o d for days
          o w for weeks
          o M for months
          o y for years
      This means, if you specify for example a duration of 1m, it is one minute, 1M would be one month and so on. Of course you can combine various duration types, for example 1w2d would be a duration of 16 days. To remove a duration you can just set it to 0.


New commands/command additions:

    * ADDUSER: You may now specify more nicknames and/or accountnames to be added with +aot to your channel at once.
    * BANDURATION: This command is new and allows you to set a duration after which channel bans are removed automatically. For more information about the duration's syntax, see above.
    * CHANLEV: There are some new chanlevs, seperated to private and public flags (see explanation below).
    * CHANSET (previously CHANFLAGS): There are some new chansets (see explanation below).
    * CHANUSERS: Shows you the current occupants of a channel and their flags
    * CHANSTAT: C2 now records some public statistics for your channel, you can use this command to see them.
    * GREETING: You may now set a personal greeting line with this command. After your greeting is set, C2 will message it to every channel you join if you have access flags on that channel and if the channel owner has enabled greetings with setting the channel's CHANSET to +g.
    * LANGUAGE: C2 is now multi-language capable. Currently available languages are english and german, you can switch between them by using this command.
    * OP: Instead of just opping you on a certain channel you have access you may additionally use this command to op other users on your channel or to op yourself on all channels where you have access flags (just don't specify any channel).
    * REMOVEUSER: The same as ADDUSER; You may remove more users at the same time now.
    * STAFFLIST: Displays a list of the network staff, their network status and their nicknames if they are online.
    * TEMPBAN: Allows you to add a registered ban to C2, you can specify a duration after which the ban will expire and get deregistered and removed.
    * UFLAGS: New command to change your user flags (see below).
    * UNBANMASK: Removes all channel bans, and if you're a master it removes aswell all registered bans matching a nick!user@host mask.
    * VOICE: Refer to OP above.


User flags (They can be changed with the UFLAGS command (UFLAGS +-flags):

    * +g: Greeting, if this flag is set, your greeting set with the GREETING command will be displayed to all channels which are CHANSET +g and where you have access to.
    * +n: Notice, this flag is set by default. If it is set, C2 will notice you, if you remove it, it will privmsg you instead.
    * +w: HideWelcome, if this flag is set you won't get any channel welcomes when joining a channel.


Channel settings/flags (They can be changed with the CHANSET command (CHANSET #channel +-flags):

    * +b: BitchMode, if enabled, C2 enables the bitch mode (nobody can get op who doesn't atleast have the +o chanlev).
    * +c: ChanLimit, if enabled, C2 will automatically do a floating limit change for the channel. The limit will automatically be set to the channel's user amount + the threshold set up with the AUTOLIMIT command.
    * +e: EnforceBans, if enabled, C2 enables enforcing for channel bans set with /mode #channel +b evil!host@mask which means that C2 will immediately kick all users off the channel matching the new ban. USE THIS WITH CARE, only enable this if you can fully trust everyone having op on your channel, else he can abuse the restrictiveness to kick certain or even all users off your channel very easy.
    * +f: ForceTopic, if enabled, C2 will deny any topic changes via /topic (it will restore it to the one set with the TOPIC command) and only allow the topic to be changed with the TOPIC command.
    * +g: Greetings, if enabled, C2 will message the greeting of all users to the channel when they're joining and having chanlevs.
    * +j: Join, if enabled, C2 will sit on your channel as C did, if you disable it C2 will part your channel and work from outside instead.
    * +k: KnownOnly, if enabled, C2 will switch the channel to the known only mode, which means that it will kick all users off your channel without having at least the +k chanlev, either by kickbanning them or by kicking them if your channel is invite only (channel mode +i). Please note that you should give chanlevs to all users you want to stay inside your channel before activating this feature if you don't want them to be kicked off.
    * +p: Protect, if enabled, C2 will re-op/re-voice users having the +o/+v chanlev whenever they are getting deopped/devoiced.
    * +t: TopicSave, if enabled, C2 will save the topic currently set on the channel or whenever it is changed via /topic or the TOPIC command and will restore it whenever it is rejoining your channel.
    * +v: AutoVoice, if enabled, C2 will voice every user joining your channel.
    * +w: Welcome, if enabled, C2 will notice a welcome message set with the WELCOME command to all users joining your channel.


Chanlevs (They can be changed with the CHANLEV command (CHANLEV #channel nick/#account +-flags):

    * +n: Owner, User is a channel owner and has full access to do anything to the channel, including adding of new owners and masters.
    * +m: Master, User has full access to the channel, but compared to owners he can't add new owners and masters.
    * +o: Op, User has access to be a channel operator and to use all C2 commands on the channel with need channel operator access, he can always get op on the channel either by using the OP command or automatically if combined with +a/+p.
    * +v: Voice, See chanlev +o, just for voice instead.
    * +a: Auto, If combined with +o, the user will be opped on the channel automatically when joining/logging in.
    * +b: Ban, The user will be kickbanned immediately when either joining the channel or when sitting on the channel while this flag is being set.
    * +d: Deop, If set, the user will never be able to get op on the channel, C2 will always deop him.
    * +q: Devoice, See +d, just for voice.
    * +g: AutoVoice, If combined with +v, the user will be voiced automatically when joining the channel or logging in.
    * +h: HideGreeting, If set, the greeting of this user won't be displayed, even if greetings are enabled on the channel and if the user has a chanlev and a greeting set. This flag is a personal flag and can only be set by the user of this account if he already has a chanlev, not by the channel owner/master.
    * +i: Invite, If set, the user will be invited to the channel automatically. This flag is a personal flag and can only be set by the user of this account if he already has a chanlev, not by the channel owner/master.
    * +k: Known, If set, this user won't be kicked off the channel if it is in the KnownOnly mode. You can use this to allow a user to stay on the channel without giving any rights to him.
    * +t: Topic, If set, the user can change the channel topic.
    * +p: Protect, If set, C2 will protect this user's channel modes referring to his chanlevs.
    * +w: HideWelcome, If set, C2 won't display the welcome to this user. This flag is a personal flag and can only be set by the user of this account if he already has a chanlev, not by the channel owner/master.

Some legacy commands and their new version:
AUTH is now LOGIN
HELLO is now REGISTER
NEWPASS is now PASSWORD
BANDEL is now UNBAN
CHANFLAGS is now CHANSET

Should you find a bug or have a good suggestion, you can always contact the developers (listed on the Staff page)
You may use /WHOIS or simply check STAFFLIST if they are online :)

And as a final safety precaution we have added an extra output for the services.

If you're not sure if something is a service, simply use /cbot WHOIS and C will reply wether or not that nick is a service.

ChanServ2 will replace the old C tonight.

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As some of you may have previously noticed, we've spent alot of time during the last weeks to work on our new channel service bot ChanServ, known with the nickname "C2" on the network, which is intended to replace the old C very soon.

After weeks of hard work and many thousand lines of source code we're proud to enter the public-beta stage now. C2 has a bunch of new comfort and security features ready for you and your channel to use, so you surely can explore alot of new stuff while testing :-)

Everyone who wants to participate in our public beta to test out C2 in his own channel may now feel to join #help (we're sorry for that procedure, but we want to stay in contact with all participants and therefore we don't offer an automated request system for this).

Please note: Even if we've considered C2 as stable enough to join your channel this is still BETA, so we can't take any warranty for C2's permanent availability for now, even if we're trying to offer the best service to you. Beta participants will start their channels with clean channel settings and chanlevs, which means that C will be removed without old C data being taken over to C2 and they will end with having to register their channels again once the beta is ending.

We hope to see some of you beta-testing very soon and we hope you'll enjoy C2. If you have any bug-reports, suggestions or criticism you can always contact us.

UPDATE: Some of the new key features and the new flags can be found here


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We've recently updated our Forums to the new vBulletin version 3.7.0.

Additionally to all old features you may now:

• Tag your threads and posts with keywords for an easier search
  
• Manage a list with your friends on the network (if they're posting in the forums)
• Get entrys to your personal guestbook or write guestbook entrys to others (your guestbook can be found on your profile page)
• Upload and manage your own pictures in your new personal photo albums
• Create and join social groups
• Customize your personal profile page to fit your needs

To try it, just head over to the forums by clicking on the "Board" button on the left. You can use your C-account data to log-in.

Happy posting, enjoy :-)


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CodersNet and the whole team wishes you, your family and your friends a Merry Christmas 2007 and a Happy and Great new Year 2008!

We've planned some interesting new developments and features all around the network for 2008, so stay tuned and let us surprise you :-)


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