QuakeNet

QuakeNet is the largest IRC network, with peak user counts close to 180,000 every day [ [http://mrtg.quakenet.org/cgi/_TOTAL_.cgi Quakenet users ] ] [ [http://searchirc.com/network/QuakeNet Search IRC, displaying network information for QuakeNet ] ] and over 180,000 channels. At its peak on 8 February 2005, the network recorded 243,394 simultaneous connections.

ervices

Founded in 1997 as an IRC network for QuakeWorld players, QuakeNet has seen huge growth over the years as it attracted many other gamers [ [http://www.quakenet.org/history.php The official website for the QuakeNet IRC network ] ] . It became popular initially because of its network stability and service bot 'Q' and later 'L'. [ [http://searchirc.com/services/QuakeNet Search IRC, displaying information about QuakeNet's network services ] ] QuakeNet has many services, some of which are:

* D - Newserv control service
* G - Automated help and control service, second version of H and F.
* NO - NOperserv beta (Operserv for the Newserv API)
* N4 - Another Newserv control service (P's)
* O - Operator service
* P - Proxyscan 2 (Newserv module)
* Q - The fully featured channel management service, the most famous QuakeNet service
* R - Q and S request service (Newserv module)
* S - Spamscan service, version 2 (Newserv module)
* T - Trojanscan, version 2 (Newserv module)
* U - Lua scripting engine (Newserv module)
* Y - Another Newserv control service
* Z - Another Newserv control service (runs unstable code and nterfacer)
* Tutor - Plays tutorials, manages the users' questions and its answers on #tutorial (Newserv module)
* DevChat - used for developer-chats (like 'Tutor') (Newserv module) (not loaded when not used)

The list of features for the public service bots can be found on the [http://www.quakenet.org/ QuakeNet official home page]

Former services:
* B - Private service used by Boomtown customers.
* E - E-mail service, used by for processing the trust queue and sending acceptance/rejection emails
* F - #feds channel management service
* H - Automated help service (Newserv module)
* L - Lightweight channel management service, obsolete with Q's 2008 upgrade.
* M - Match bot, reported stats from game servers (was only online briefly)
* V - VirusScan (automated drone removal), also used as VersionScan
* W - World Cup Score Announcer (Only in #worldcup)

References

External links

* [http://www.quakenet.org/ QuakeNet official home page]
* [http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.php?net=QuakeNet Netsplit.de statistics]
* [http://searchirc.com/network/QuakeNet Searchirc.com statistics]
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