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Hack 10 The QuakeNet L Channel Bot

ChanServ and NickServ aren't
always available. When on QuakeNet, use the L bot to manage your
channels.

QuakeNet provides some service
bots for you to use so that you can maintain a channel on their
servers. The two channel management bots are called Q and L. The Q
service provides a few more features than the lighter L bot, but
requires a little more effort to request it to join your channel. If
you just want a channel for a few friends to chat in or for a small
gaming clan, then L is the bot for you. The L bot will allow you to
auto-op, voice friends or clan members, and keep your channel open
and protected.

You can connect to QuakeNet by typing /server irc.quakenet.org in your favorite IRC client.

This is a quick guide to getting and configuring an L bot. Detailed
information and help about these bots can be found at http://www.quakenet.org.

2.7.1 Create an Account

First you need to
create an account with Q. All L account information is dealt with
through Q, so you need to
be
authed with Q whenever you want to do anything
with an L bot.

Imagine your nickname
is ChatterBox and you want to register your nickname. You can do so
by sending a private message to Q, like so:

/msg Q HELLO  chatterbox@wanttochat.com chatterbox@wanttochat.com 

Q will respond with the following:

-Q- Hello, ChatterBox. A new user account has been created for you, with nick ChatterBox.
-Q- OK, Your login information has been sent to "chatterbox@wanttochat.com".
please check your email for further instructions.

When you receive the email, you should change the password as
instructed in the email.

Let's say that your password is
"password". Now you can auth with
Q:

/msg Q @CServe.quakenet.org AUTH ChatterBox password 

If you used the correct password, Q will respond with:

-Q- AUTH'd successfully.

Now that you are authenticated with Q, you can set up your L bot.

2.7.2 Getting L

To get an
L bot to join your channel, you must meet
the requirements set by QuakeNet. These requirements may change
occasionally as they improve the service, so check the L
FAQ on http://www.quakenet.org for the current
details.

To prevent unnecessary requests, you need to join the channel that
you want and make sure you have at least three friends in there. You
will then need to wait for about two hours. Then you must log in to
the QuakeNet web site with your Q auth details and request L for your
channel from the Services link. If the request
was successful, you will be informed, and L will join your channel
shortly afterward.

2.7.3 Setting Up L for Your Channel

You will
probably want to allow friends or clan members to receive channel
operator status when they join the channel, providing they are authed
with Q. You can make your authenticated friend ChitterBox
automatically receive operator status when he joins your new channel
(#mynewchan) by sending this private message to L:

/msg L chanlev  #mynewchan ChitterBox  +ao 

If all went well, L will respond with:

-L- Done.

At the end of the private message, you can specify a number of flags:

+n

Owner of the channel

+m

Master of the bot

+o

Operator

+v

Voice

+g

Voice even if opped

+a

Automatically apply the given flags

In the previous case, the flag +ao means to apply
operator status when the user joins the channel.

You can check the users for your channel and what access rights they
have by typing:

/msg L chanlev #mynewchan

L will respond with something similar to this:

-L- Users for channel #mynewchan
-L- Authname         Access flags
-L- -----------------------------
-L- ChatterBox               amno
-L- ChitterBox                 ao
-L- End of chanlev for #mynewchan

You can see the access flags you just added for the user ChitterBox.

You can add a welcome message for your channel by
sending a private message to L:

/msg L welcome  #mynewchan Hi! This is my new channel :) 

Again, if this worked, L will respond with:

-L- Done.

When people join your channel, they will now receive a notice from L:

-L- [#mynewclan] Hi! This is my new channel :)

That's all there is to it, really. Now your channel
has a service bot in it, and the channel is reserved for you so you
can be found easily by staying in that channel. You can tell your
friends about the channel or advertise on your web page for people to
join.

Alex North